Community resilience and flooding in UK guidance: a critical review of concepts, definitions, and their implications
Journal article
Ntontis, E., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. and Williams, R. 2018. Community resilience and flooding in UK guidance: a critical review of concepts, definitions, and their implications. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12223
Authors | Ntontis, E., Drury, J., Amlôt, R., Rubin, G. and Williams, R. |
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Abstract | 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 generalizations and focus more specifically on the concept’s behavioural, relational, cognitive, and psychological aspects. We discuss the implications of different conceptualizations of community resilience for its operationalization by policymakers and practitioners. |
Keywords | Community resilience; policy; disasters; extreme events; floods; resilience; governance; preparedness |
Year | 2018 |
Journal | Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management |
Publisher | Wiley |
ISSN | 0966-0879 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12223 |
Publication dates | |
25 Mar 2018 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 26 Sep 2018 |
Accepted | 27 Jan 2018 |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Output status | Published |
https://repository.canterbury.ac.uk/item/88wwy/community-resilience-and-flooding-in-uk-guidance-a-critical-review-of-concepts-definitions-and-their-implications
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