| Author(s) | Hugh Deeming, Maureen Fordham, Christian Kuhlicke, Lydia Pedoth, Stefan Schneiderbauer, Cheney Shreve |
 | Year | 2019 |
 | Pages | 291 |
 | Language
| English |
 | Format | PDF |
 | Size | 8.5 MB
|
 | Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
 | ISBN | 1119165962, 978-1119165965 |
An essential guide to the foundations, research and practices of community disaster resilience
Framing Community Disaster Resilience
offers a guide to the theories, research and approaches for addressing
the complexity of community resilience towards hazardous events or
disasters. The text draws on the activities and achievements of the
project emBRACE: Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe. The
authors identify the key dimensions of resilience across a range of
disciplines and domains and present an analysis of community
characteristics, networks, behaviour and practices in specific test
cases.
The text contains an in-depth exploration of five test
cases whose communities are facing impacts triggered by different
hazards, namely: river floods in Germany, earthquakes in Turkey,
landslides in South Tyrol, Italy, heat-waves in London and combined
fluvial and pluvial floods in Northumberland and Cumbria. The authors
examine the data and indicators of past events in order to assess
current situations and to tackle the dynamics of community resilience.
In addition, they put the focus on empirical analysis to explore the
resilience concept and to test the usage of indicators for describing
community resilience. This important text:
- Merges the forces of research knowledge, networking and practices in order to understand community disaster resilience
- Contains the results of the acclaimed project Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe - emBRACE
- Explores the key dimensions of community resilience
- Includes five illustrative case studies from European communities that face various hazards
Written for undergraduate students, postgraduates and researchers of social science, and policymakers, Framing Community Disaster Resilience reports on the findings of an important study to reveal the most effective approaches to enhancing community resilience.
The
emBRACE research received funding from the European Community‘s Seventh
Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreement n° 283201. The
European Community is not liable for any use that may be made of the
information contained in this publication.
