Community disaster resilienceHealth promotionHealthcareIndirect disaster prevention measureExperiences a disaster can be traumatic, and it can affect people not only physically but also psychologically, socially, and economically. Damage to the victims of a disaster is not only physical but can also ...
Disaster resilient civil infrastructure systems are essential for disaster resilient communities. Measuring the resilience of these systems is the first step towards their improvement. This, however, is not easy: civil infrastructure systems are highly complex, operate in different ways, and are affected...
elderly and children tend to be less resilient to disasters by being more prone to psychological stress, which impairs recovery from disasters, and because they generally have fewer economic resources to recover material damage and reconstruct livelihoods. Indigenous peoples are sometimes marginalized withi...
Therefore, building a resilient community has become part of DRR initiatives. Review of literature, however, suggests that there are gaps in implementation due to lack of understanding of resilient community concept and suitable community-based approach in promoting a community resilience spirit towards ...
In addition to alerting us to the resilient system of social structure, Bourdieu’s theory offers another important element: the role of symbolic capital (defined as standing, value, recognition, prestige). External support may focus on those most visible or deemed most deserving. Stereotypes, mis...
When a disaster strikes, a community has no choice but to respond and cope with the event. But why is it that some communities cope and adapt better than others in the face of adversity? Underlying a well-integrated, resilient community is social capital, which can play an important role ...
thought processes, as well as at the end hopefully facilitate you creating not only personal continuity plans for their home life, but for their businesses as well. At the end of the day, the more resilient we can make all of the sectors of our community, the better off we all will be...
Being resilient is important to coping in times of change, and the five characteristics of resiliency are being positive, focused, flexible, proactive, and organized. Having a good support system, a plan, and a will and willingness to survive are incredible tools during and after a crisis, bot...
Other examples of roles include e.g. communities vulnerable to mosquito-borne diseases (Buzz about Dengue), citizens of a metropolis that experienced a severe disaster almost a century ago (Cultural Memory Game) or subsistence farmers trying to develop a more disaster-resilient community (Dissolving...
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