Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness
Dartmouth College · United States Department of Veterans Affairs · +6 more institutions
Abstract
Communities have the potential to function effectively and adapt successfully in the aftermath of disasters. Drawing upon literatures in several disciplines, we present a theory of resilience that encompasses contemporary understandings of stress, adaptation, wellness, and resource dynamics. Community resilience is a process linking a network of adaptive capacities (resources with dynamic attributes) to adaptation after a disturbance or adversity. Community adaptation is manifest in population wellness, defined as high and non-disparate levels of mental and behavioral health, functioning, and quality of life. Community resilience emerges from four primary sets of adaptive capacities--Economic Development,…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 98.71
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 171
Authors
5- FHFran H. NorrisCorresponding
Dartmouth College, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD, White River Junction VA Medical Center, National Counter Terrorism Security Office, National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- SSSusan Stevens
Dartmouth College, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for PTSD, White River Junction VA Medical Center, National Counter Terrorism Security Office, National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- BPBetty Pfefferbaum
National Counter Terrorism Security Office, National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- KFKaren Fraser Wyche
National Counter Terrorism Security Office, National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
- RLRose L. Pfefferbaum
National Counter Terrorism Security Office, National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Phoenix College
Topics & keywords
- Community resilience
- Adaptation (eye)
- Psychological resilience
- Social capital
- Adaptive capacity
- Psychology
- Resource (disambiguation)
- Public relations
- Climate action