Achieving Disaster Resilient Communities
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Hazards and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 2490
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
What processes and mechanisms contribute to enhancing the ability of communities to respond to disasters? What structural conditions enable and disable communities to mitigate the impact of disasters? How do social, economic, political, and cultural factors shape the resilient capacity of communities in coping with crisis and disturbance? As the world is facing the growing trends of disaster, be it physical or biological, the question of resilience becomes increasingly important to address. In this Special Issue, we look into resilience at the level of communities that function as the ground for social coordination, collaboration, and mobilization in response to disruption and shock. To extend the existing literature in disaster resilience, two premises underlie our framing of resilience at the community level. First is the role of social cohesion in enhancing resilient communities. Second is the impact of risk knowledge on disaster preparedness of communities. These two factors are inextricably intertwined in the social production of resilient communities. In this Special Issue, we invite papers on these topics but not limited to:
- Social cohesion and disaster response
- Social Media and relief coordination
- Local organizations and resource mobilization
- Early warning system
- Informational relations
- Sociotechnical resilience
- Collaborative practices
- Sociomaterial Infrastructures
Dr. Sulfikar Amir
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- disaster
- resilience
- communities
- social cohesion
- information
- collaboration
