A conceptual framework for investigating community wellbeing and resilience

McCrea, Rod; Walton, Andrea; Leonard, Rosemary

doi:10.1080/10371656.2014.11082070

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“…On the one hand, resilience is conceptualized as an inherent or antecedent condition or state or ‘outcome’ [10,42,45,51]. Inherent resilience reflects an ontological definition of resilience which focuses on the system’s ‘being’ [52,53], i.e., its ability to function well under normal circumstances in non-crisis periods and its ability to reinstate the pre-crisis stability (i.e., bounce back) if any catastrophe strikes it. In other words, inherent resilience can be thought of “as a snapshot in time or as a static state” [42], a system’s latent attributes [49,50].…”

Section: Resilience: the New Frontiermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, a system’s resilience is also its adaptive quality during and after a crisis—it is a ‘process’. This dimension is related with the phenomenological view which focuses on ’becoming’ [52] or ’doing’ [53]. In this view, resilience is not a fixed property of the system; rather, it incorporates the idea that a resilient system has flexibility in responding to hazards in that the system’s initial structure or function might undergo some necessary changes—resilience is viewed as “a quality, characteristic or result that is generated or developed by the processes that foster or promote it” [34].…”

Section: Resilience: the New Frontiermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A balanced combination of various ‘community capitals’ [82]—sometimes variously termed as community resources [48,53], community energy [48], or community capacities [53]—enhances resilience of a community to disturbances including climate change disruptions. Community capitals are resources of a community that are invested for the collective wellbeing of the entire community.…”

Section: Community Resilience: the Focused Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Community capitals are resources of a community that are invested for the collective wellbeing of the entire community. Social scientists frequently mention human capital (i.e., an individual’s innate and acquired personal attributes, such as work skill, education, knowledge, and health, which contribute to the ability to earn a living and strengthening the community), cultural capital (i.e., community’s worldview, values, and norms), financial or economic capital (i.e., material property, wealth, and other financial sources available to be invested for business development, civic, and social enterprises), physical or built capital (i.e., physical infrastructure of a community including machinery, homes, factories, water, roads, transport, shelter, and energy), political capital (i.e., community members’ access to resources, power, and power brokers), environmental or natural capital (i.e., availability and sustainable use of natural resources for human consumption), and social capital (i.e., the extent of social networks) [9,22,26,28,30,53,82,84,85]. Social capital is an ‘umbrella term’ [25,26] that can incorporate cultural and political capitals of a community.…”

Section: Community Resilience: the Focused Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections

Kais

Islam

2016

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In the last few decades, disaster risk reduction programs and climate initiatives across the globe have focused largely on the intimate connections between vulnerability, recovery, adaptation, and coping mechanisms. Recent focus, however, is increasingly paid to community resilience. Community, placed at the intersection between the household and national levels of social organization, is crucial in addressing economic, social, or environmental disturbances disrupting human security. Resilience measures a community’s capability of bouncing back—restoring the original pre-disaster state, as well as bouncing forward—the capacity to cope with emerging post-disaster situations and changes. Both the ‘bouncing back’ and ‘moving forward’ properties of a community are shaped and reshaped by internal and external shocks such as climate threats, the community’s resilience dimensions, and the intensity of economic, social, and other community capitals. This article reviews (1) the concept of resilience in relation to climate change and vulnerability; and (2) emerging perspectives on community-level impacts of climate change, resilience dimensions, and community capitals. It argues that overall resilience of a place-based community is located at the intersection of the community’s resilience dimensions, community capitals, and the level of climate disruptions.

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Section: Resilience: the New Frontiermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resilience: the New Frontiermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Community Resilience: the Focused Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Community Resilience: the Focused Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections

Kais

Islam

2016

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“…They claim that the economic benefits from mining can be translated into community resilience which can then be transformed into community wellbeing. However, they acknowledge that their analysis of the CSG industry impacts on the Western Downs showed an initial sense of loss of community wellbeing and that future capacity building provided only a theoretical potential for increased community resilience (McCrea R et al, 2014). …”

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Beneficial use of coal seam water and enterprise transition for case study farms, Chinchilla district, Queensland

Monckton¹

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New water sources are rarely available in Australia for irrigation. It is even rarer for this to be offered to potential users for little or no cost. However, this is the case with coal seam water (CSW). CSW is produced as a by-product of gas extraction. Availability of this water is possible because coal seam gas (CSG) companies operating in Queensland are obliged to treat and dispose of this normally salty water. The cost of this treatment is considerable and yet the companies have not sought to recover these costs. There is no available data on why the companies have chosen a particular option within a range of options available for the disposal of CSW. The provision of this water was unprecedented to potential users. Accordingly, there was no precedent for its adoption.Given that treated CSW is available for use in agriculture, a key question must include how irrigators can best use it. This may mean making decisions about using it for irrigation in their current dryland production system. The thesis is particularly aimed at discovering the economic benefits from the use of this water for irrigation and what are the motivations of different users to incorporate this water into their production systems. However, the overall purpose of this thesis is to discover how much water is being made available for beneficial use generally, where and for what purpose. The thesis also aims to provide alternative options for the use and distribution of this water for maximum economic, social and environmental benefit.The research for this thesis partly uses cost-benefit methodology for case study farms which utilise input data from economic modelling and from farm interview data provided by affected landholders and industry expert commentators. The study area chosen was Chinchilla, Queensland where most of the State's CSW is available for irrigation. Here it was found that there were 36 landholders receiving this water. Fourteen of these were willing to be interviewed. In addition, there were 9 other landholders and 13 industry experts interviewed.The acceptance and use of CSW by landholders was not universal. At the outset, potential irrigators needed to meet a certain set of conditions before they were in a position to accept and utilise CSW. The first condition was physical proximity to a treatment facility; 2 the second was the ability to meet the supply contract conditions. The third was a willingness to accept the supply risks with an untested and unknown water source. Many potential irrigators did meet these conditions. Despite this, many still chose not to use this water. The reasons for this were complex and related to a combination of economic, social and environmental considerations.The interview material was designed to obtain first-hand information about the reasons why landholders would use or refuse this water. For all landholders, incorporation of CSW into their production system was influenced by their individual outlook and circumstances.One key deciding factor for users was the profit potential a...

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Effects of environmental corporate social responsibility on environmental well‐being perception and the mediation role of community resilience

Rela

Awang

Ramli

et al. 2020

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Environmental corporate social responsibility (ECSR) is corporate business sustainability for the future and a noble ethical that fosters social, economic and environmental well‐being (EWB) of the community. Based on environmental protection and management, the Indonesian mining company is obliged to mitigate and conserve the surrounding environmental ecosystem. The mining company invested IDR17.35 billion on ECSR since 2006. This study examines the effects of ECSR on EWB of the community by mediating community resilience. The subjects were family household leaders in 12 villages who were direct and indirect recipients of ECSR. Partial least squares‐based structural equation modelling analysis was used to determine the effects of ECSR on the community EWB. In addition, were analysed mediated effects by community resilience (CR). The findings of this study confirmed that ECSR practices had positive and significant effects on CR and EWB. As a mediator, CR significantly contributed to the sustainable EWB of the community.

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A conceptual framework for investigating community wellbeing and resilience

Cited by 77 publications

References 4 publications

Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections

Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections

Beneficial use of coal seam water and enterprise transition for case study farms, Chinchilla district, Queensland

Effects of environmental corporate social responsibility on environmental well‐being perception and the mediation role of community resilience

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