Strategies for supporting community resilience: multinational experiences

CRISMART, Volume 41:

This collection of articles shares multinational experiences and analyses of community resilience, and provides lessons learned on how to form government structures that do not only encourage public participation but also rely on them for decisions and for finding new opportunities. The articles look into the question of how government authorities support community resilience activities without overwhelming local residents and their leaders. They specifically draw attention to the fact that local efforts, who are responsible for successfully preparing, responding and recovering from disasters, are often undermined and try to overcome these obstacles.

The collection is divided in eleven chapters: (i) policy leadership challenges in supporting community resilience; (ii) government can not do it alone: the UK experience of resilience; (iii) the idea of resilience and shared responsibility in Australia mark; (iv) New Zealand: renewing communities and local governance; (v) engaging the whole community in the United States; (vi) living with water: shifting Dutch approaches to community resilience; (vii) community resilience in a binational region; (viii) implementing whole-of-society resilience: observations from a case study in Pemberton valley; (ix) crisis communication and community resilience: exploring symbolic religious provocations and meaningful exchange; (x) readiness, resilience, and hope: the Israeli experience; and (xi) what works to support community resilience.