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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 WilliamsCommunity 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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Journal of Contingencies and Crisis ManagementISSN
0966-0879Publisher
WileyExternal DOI
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1Volume
27Page range
2-13Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2018-02-12First Open Access (FOA) Date
2020-03-25First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2018-02-12Usage metrics
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