A Community Resilience Framework for community development practitioners building equity and adaptive capacity

Cafer, Anne; Green, John J.; Goreham, Gary A.

doi:10.1080/15575330.2019.1575442

Cited by 48 publications

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“…However, collective impact has two limitations for community resilience. First, collective impact requires preconditions of capacity and infrastructure (Cafer, Green, & Goreham, 2019). In non-metropolitan areas, nonprofit organizations that can serve as the backbone and trained facilitators are two examples of preconditions that may not exist (Zuckerman, 2016a(Zuckerman, , 2019.…”

Section: Social Innovation and Community Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“Why can’t this work here?”: social innovation and collective impact in a micropolitan community

Zuckerman

2020

Community Development

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Cross-sector partnerships, and collective impact, in particular, have gained increased attention as community-level strategies for tackling wicked, complex, social challenges such as child maltreatment. To date, there has been limited independent research on collective impact, especially in non-metropolitan areas with limited capacity. This case study examines the conditions that supported the development of a collective impact effort in a non-metropolitan community to address child wellbeing. It finds that small communities offer strengths that support collective impact as a social innovation as well as challenges that create vulnerabilities to outside influence that may stymie the development of locally developed social innovations.

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Section: Social Innovation and Community Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“Why can’t this work here?”: social innovation and collective impact in a micropolitan community

Zuckerman

2020

Community Development

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“…This article uses the theoretical framework of community resilience to explore the response to the Lismore floods. This is a concept that has gained central importance in approaches to disaster management in recent years (Boon, 2014; Cafer et al, 2019; Cavaye & Ross, 2019; Kais & Islam, 2016; Keogh et al, 2011). Rogers (2010, cited in Kais & Islam, 2016, p. 1211) asserts that community resilience is ‘a key driver of reform in disaster management and now underpins how governments and key organisations understand risk, uncertainty, and disaster’.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Community Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within the context of disasters, community resilience focuses on building partnerships between disaster management agencies and community organisations, with the purpose of drawing on community strengths and enhancing engagement (Ollerenshaw et al, 2016). This partnership emphasises community participation in disaster management decision-making (Cafer et al, 2019; Pfefferbaum et al, 2017). This approach enables communities to trust and feel a sense of ownership of disaster management plans, as well as facilitating two-way communication and sharing of information both within the community and between organisations (Ollerenshaw et al, 2016).…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Community Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While various models for building community resilience have been trialled, this area of research is relatively new (Cavaye & Ross, 2019). According to some authors, the context of disaster management in which the concept of community resilience has been developed has resulted in an overemphasis on physical infrastructure and emergency preparedness systems and a lack of expertise in building community agency and capacity (Cafer et al, 2019; Cavaye & Ross, 2019). Community resilience requires harnessing local resources and capacities to address shared problems, build capabilities and take action on a range of interdependent community issues.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework: Community Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

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Building Community Resilience: Lessons from Flood-affected Residents in a Regional Australian Town

Darab

Hartman

Pittaway

2020

The International Journal of Community and Social Development

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This article discusses the relevance and usefulness of a community development approach and community resilience in coping with natural disasters such as floods and their impact. In March 2017, a major flood in Lismore, Australia, resulted in extensive damage to homes and businesses and caused severe disruption and distress to some residents. A small qualitative study of 20 residents was conducted to understand how they were affected in flooded areas in terms of their housing and other impacts. The narrative and thematic analysis of respondents’ stories ‘from the ground’ highlighted both the problems with some institutional responses to the flood and the strength of the community response. One of the key findings was the resilience shown by some parts of the community during and after the flood, particularly in terms of communal self-organisation. This article interrogates that finding in-depth and argues that it provides valuable insights into community resilience and a community development approach, which need to be consciously cultivated to combat the impact of disasters.

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“…Indeed, the use of the resilience concept has politically conservative connotations in that its point of reference is system equilibrium, which assumes the lack of political debate or action to change the status quo. According to Mackinnon and Derickson [18], resilience is too often an objective defined and imposed from the top, being sometimes used to defend the neo-liberal development model, as this concept seems to have "certain ontological commitments that make it ideally suited for neo-liberal forms of governance" [42]. In the face of these criticisms, some scholars proposed a radical rethinking of the concept through an evolutionary interpretation (bouncing forward) of the dynamic processes that help systems to face disruptive events and achieve new and more sustainable states.…”

Section: Resilience: a Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Building Resilience: An Art–Food Hub to Connect Local Communities

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Resilience thinking is an appropriate framework when assessing the transitional potential of complex urban systems. The transformation of abandoned spaces into local hubs attracting new and innovative activities and events promotes a socioeconomic renaissance in urban communities, by stimulating adaptation to change, enhancing local resilience and strengthening urban–rural links. Under the conceptual umbrella of resilience thinking, the present study illustrates the outcomes of an integrated program of research-action aimed at urban regeneration in a medium-sized, economically disadvantaged city in Southern Italy (Battipaglia, Campania). The transformation of an abandoned building into an ‘Art–Food Hub’—a multi-purpose and creative cultural space—based on resilience thinking was the specific case analyzed in our study. Appropriate stakeholders were identified and involved in a series of field activities and workshops, with the final objective of informing a comprehensive strategy strengthening awareness to change and capacity building. More specifically, stakeholder involvement was carried out with two aims: first, to make stakeholders active participants in co-designing a Strategic Urban Planning Document for Battipaglia and, second, to evaluate to what extent the proposed initiative contributes to building local resilience. By explicitly considering cross-scale drivers of community resilience, the results of this study show how the concept of resilience can be practically applied to policy formulation and implementation.

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A Community Resilience Framework for community development practitioners building equity and adaptive capacity

Cited by 48 publications

References 27 publications

“Why can’t this work here?”: social innovation and collective impact in a micropolitan community

“Why can’t this work here?”: social innovation and collective impact in a micropolitan community

Building Community Resilience: Lessons from Flood-affected Residents in a Regional Australian Town

Building Resilience: An Art–Food Hub to Connect Local Communities

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