In:
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Wiley, Vol. 27, No. 1 ( 2019-01), p. 2-13
Kurzfassung:
Community resilience is one of the main strategies that UK governments employ to deal with the impact of floods. In this paper, we analyse how community resilience is used in 28 UK guidance documents that refer to floods and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of different conceptualizations. We show that some documents represent community resilience as the absence of illness, as the opposite of vulnerability, as a static and unchanging element, or in a circular way as both a cause and an outcome. By contrast, some documents avoid generalizations and focus more specifically on the concept's behavioural, relational, cognitive, and psychological aspects. We discuss the implications of different conceptualizations of community resilience for its operationalization by policymakers and practitioners.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0966-0879
,
1468-5973
DOI:
10.1111/jccm.2019.27.issue-1
DOI:
10.1111/1468-5973.12223
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Wiley
Publikationsdatum:
2019
ZDB Id:
2020585-5
SSG:
3,2
SSG:
3,6