Building community resilience: can everyone enjoy a good life?

Cinderby, Steve; Haq, Gary; Cambridge, Howard; Lock, Kate

doi:10.1080/13549839.2015.1100597

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“…Verbal and informal mechanisms are some of the most powerful means of transmitting messages on climate change [47,48]. Recent studies suggest that this is best achieved when issues directly relevant to communities are linked to climate change, such as on improving quality of life and the capacity of neighbourhoods to recover from threats and respond to change [49]. Approaches that use a locality to help people connect to emotions and social meanings associated with climate impacts may be particularly fruitful [45,50].…”

Section: Build Narratives About Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Resilience is increasingly viewed less as an outcome and more as a process of engagement, action, and change [35], involving participation and empowerment through working with social relationships, strengthening institutions and working with human desires and capacities in a context where politics and power matter [49,57,60]. In simple terms, 'participation' involves enhancing both ownership and responsibility for action through processes that motivate and address power imbalances that constrain participants of change [61,62].…”

Section: Focus On Processes and Pathwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Fazey

Carmen

Chapin

et al. 2018

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Ten essentials are presented for community resilience initiatives in the context of achieving a 1.5 o C world: Enhance adaptability; take account of shocks and stresses; work horizontally across issues; work vertically across social scales; aggressively reduce carbon emissions; build narratives about climate change; engage directly with futures; focus on climate disadvantage; focus on processes and pathways; and encourage transformations for resilience. Together the essentials highlight that resilience initiatives seeking to retain the status quo will be detrimental when they enable societies to cling to unsustainable activities. Instead, climate resilience initiatives need to be viewed more as a process of transformative social change, where learning, power, inequities and relationships matter. Finally, there is an urgent need for researchers to shift focus away from examining the nature of resilience to accelerating learning about fostering resilience in practice.

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Section: Build Narratives About Climate Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Focus On Processes and Pathwaysmentioning

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Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Fazey

Carmen

Chapin

et al. 2018

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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“…For an illustrative example in the area of community development see Blackman, Buick & O'Flynn (2016). Positive outcomes from asset-based approaches are evident in relation to poverty alleviation (Ennis & West, 2013;Toth, 2015;Wu & Pearce, 2014); access and equality in education (Knight, 2014;McNamara Horvat & Earl Davis, 2011;Samuelson & Litzler, 2016); community resilience (Cinderby, Haq, Cambridge, & Lock, 2016;Paul & Vogl, 2013); and youth development (Bloomberg, Ganey, Alba, Quintero, & Alcantara, 2003;Theron & Malindi, 2010). In the domain of health there has been increasing interest in deploying an asset-based approach over the last decade, particularly in the areas of public and mental health (Boyd, Hayes, Wilson, & Bearsley-Smith, 2008;Morgan & Ziglio, 2007).…”

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Towards an asset-based approach to promoting and sustaining well-being for people with aphasia and their families: an international exploratory study

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Background: There is growing interest in interventions that promote positive outcomes and well-being for people with aphasia (PWA) and their families, but provision is inconsistent.An asset-based approach, based on the theory of salutogenesis, focuses on what makes you well rather than ill. This approach has been used successfully across a variety of research fields, including health and social care research and practice, and has the potential to provide coherent strategies to support people living successfully with aphasia.Aim: To explore the relevance and potential of an asset-based approach to promoting and sustaining well-being for PWA and their families, across contexts and cultures.Methods: Exploratory case studies were carried out in the United Kingdom (UK), Norway, Israel, Ireland and Denmark in a variety of settings. Following an interpretative paradigm, we used qualitative methods including: interviews; appreciative inquiry; group discussions; and participatory action research. Ninety five PWA and 25 family members were asked to identify assets within themselves and their communities that promote, sustain and maintain 2 well-being, by responding to: "What makes you feel good / well / healthy?" Data were analysed using thematic analysis.Findings: An asset-based approach proved to be a powerful means for PWA and family members to explore what helps them live well with aphasia. Key themes were identified: 1) personal journey; 2) helping others; 3) connecting to self; 4) connecting to others; 5) recreation; and 6) personal attributes. Self-identification of assets, within the person and their community, and connections to these, helped PWA and their family members to maintain well-being, overcome barriers and regain confidence. Using this approach, focusing on the person's recognition, activation and mobilisation of assets, could enhance the person's understanding and restore meaning around the stroke and onset of aphasia.Conclusion: This novel exploratory research demonstrates the relevance and potential across diverse cultural contexts of taking an asset-based approach to promoting and sustaining wellbeing for PWA and their families. Focusing on maintaining connections to these assets and developing meaning around the event, could prevent some of the negative sequela of stroke.The 'patient-professional' relationship must transform into a collaborative partnership, with time and flexibility needed to introduce this approach. Further research should examine how service providers and PWA could develop and operationalise an asset-based approach in clinical and community settings and identify if there is an optimum timing for introducing this approach along the stroke pathway.

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“…Social skills are also identified with social capital. In its narrow interpretation, social capital refers to the individual' social relations and connections, and his/her sense of trust and safety in the community (Cinderby et al 2015;Duff 2011;Schaefer et al 2015). However, for some, social capital broadly includes also structural conditions, such as actors' access to information and services, as well as cognitive resources shared among different actors (Battilana et al 2009;Mair and Marti' 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Certain literature includes also a cognitive element as part of the structural context, namely shared meanings, values, and norms that may affect initiatives' success or failure (Mair and Marti' 2006;Westley et al 2013). Papers dealing with context embeddedness also stress the importance of material resources, mostly financial and built capitals, that entrepreneurs leverage in their structural context of action (Cinderby et al 2015;Johnstone and Lionais 2006;Kessler and Frank 2009). Spatial elements, for a long time dismissed in studies of institutional entrepreneurship (Korsgaard et al 2015), are also considered, including the topographical, geographical and infrastructural characteristics of the place in which entrepreneurs operate (McKeever et al 2015;Schaefer et al 2015).…”

Section: Enabling Resources: An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring enabling resources for place-based social entrepreneurship: a participatory study of Green Care practices in Finland

Moriggi

2019

Sustain Sci

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Enabling resources are the array of tangible and intangible assets that social entrepreneurs mobilize or create to bring forward novel place-based initiatives, to respond to unmet sustainability challenges and ideally contribute to virtuous processes of socioeconomic transformation. Understanding the role of resources in constraining or enabling the development of social enterprises holds important implications not merely for the initiatives, but also for the places where they are embedded. Existing studies fail to provide a comprehensive, empirically grounded account of resources for place-based social entrepreneurship. This paper aims to fill this gap, by exploring the array of resources that enable and constrain the development of Green Care practice, i.e., nature-based activities with a social innovation purpose. Three communities of Finnish practitioners-a nature-tourism company, a care farm, and a biodynamic farm-were involved over the span of 3 years in research activities conducted with an in-depth qualitative approach. Participants were engaged in several stages of iterative learning combining conventional and action-research methods: semi-structured interviews, participatory mapping, and a co-creation workshop. Results show that entrepreneurs resort to a great variety of enabling resources, inclusive of both tangible and intangible assets, that are only marginally considered by relevant literature. Based on these findings, the paper proposes a novel set of enabling resources, comprehensive of nine clusters: infrastructural, institutional, material, place-specific, organizational culture-related, social, ethical, affective, and competence-related. Two concluding insights can be inferred: understanding resources is paramount to grasp possibilities and challenges of place-based entrepreneurship; in-depth participatory processes are needed for a thorough and grounded investigation of enabling resources in places.

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Building community resilience: can everyone enjoy a good life?

Cited by 26 publications

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Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Towards an asset-based approach to promoting and sustaining well-being for people with aphasia and their families: an international exploratory study

Exploring enabling resources for place-based social entrepreneurship: a participatory study of Green Care practices in Finland

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