Against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is widespread agreement in the field
of public health that community resilience should be maintained and strengthened …

Community resilience is a term that describes the community's ability to function amidst
crises or disruptions. Community resilience is perceived as a fundamental element in …

Resilience as a concept is multi-faceted with complex dimensions. In a disaster context,
there is lack of consistency in conceptualizing social resilience. This results in ambiguity of …

Roberto E. Barrios presents an ethnographic study of the aftermaths of four natural disasters:
southern Honduras after Hurricane Mitch; New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina; …

Complexity is a useful frame of reference for disaster management and understanding
population health. An important means to unraveling the complexities of disaster …

The modernist usage of the word crisis conveys the idea of an event that acts as a historical
judgment, marks an epochal transition, and sometimes leads to a utopian era. Furthermore …

A major challenge for measuring community resilience is the lack of empirical observations
in disasters. As an effective tool to observe human activities on the earth surface, night-time …

Community development and related approaches have become prominent in academic
circles, resulting in the emergence and resurgence of related community-level notions. With …

Purpose–When the devastating 6.3 magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch, Aotearoa New
Zealand on the 22 February 2011 the landscape of the city and its communities were …

There has been an unprecedented increase in discussion about the concept of community
resilience and its usefulness in the context of disasters (Walter, 2004) over the last decade …