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Community resilience and flooding in UK guidance: a critical review of concepts, definitions, and their implications

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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:02 authored by Evangelos Ntontis, John DruryJohn Drury, Richard Amlôt, Gideon James Rubin, Richard Williams
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 generalisations and focus more specifically on the concept’s behavioural, relational, cognitive, and psychological aspects. We discuss the implications of different conceptualisations of community resilience for its operationalisation by policymakers and practitioners.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management

ISSN

0966-0879

Publisher

Wiley

Issue

1

Volume

27

Page range

2-13

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  • Psychology Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2018-02-12

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2020-03-25

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2018-02-12

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