More Than Bouncing Back - Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice

This book teases out limitations with current conceptualizations of community resilience, offers enhanced and alternative conceptualizations, and presents compelling case studies of new conceptualizations in action. It is a starting place for scholarly conversations about the role of community resilience in community development practice.

List of contents

Introduction The Limits of Current Models 1. Using disaster recovery knowledge as a roadmap to community resilience 2. The limits of resilience in US community responses to recent drought events 3. Community resilience: A meta-study of international development rhetoric in emerging economies Reconceptualizing and Measuring Resilience 4. Community resilience and community development: What mutual opportunities arise from interactions between the two concepts? 5. A Community Resilience Framework for community development practitioners building equity and adaptive capacity 6. Exploring the relationships between local agrifood system resilience, multiple measures of development, and health in the Southern United States Turning Theory into Action: Building Resilience 7. Can community interventions change resilience? Fostering perceptions of individual and community resilience in rural places 8. Agents of change—together: Using agent-based models to inspire social capital building for resilient communities

About the author

Anne Cafer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi, USA.
John J. Green, formerly with the University of Mississippi, is Director and Professor with the Southern Rural Development Center and Mississippi State University, USA.
Gary Goreham is Emeritus Professor at North Dakota State University, USA.

Summary

This book teases out limitations with current conceptualizations of community resilience, offers enhanced and alternative conceptualizations, and presents compelling case studies of new conceptualizations in action. It is a starting place for scholarly conversations about the role of community resilience in community development practice.

Product details

• Authors: Anne (University of Mississippi) Green Cafer
• Assisted by: Anne Cafer (Editor), Gary Goreham (Editor), Goreham Gary (Editor), John J. Green (Editor), Green John J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.11.2024
• EAN: 9781032146362
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3214636-2
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Community Development – Current Issues Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, NATURE / Natural Disasters, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, Anthropology, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, Society and culture: general, Natural disasters, Human Geography, Development Studies