Network Structure, Diversity, and Proactive Resilience Building: a Response to Tompkins and Adger

By Lenore Lauri Newman, A. Dale. 2005

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Although community social networks can build resilience, and thus, aid adaptation to unexpected environmental change (Tomkins and Adger 2004), not all social networks are created equal. Networks composed of a diversity of "bridging" links to a diverse web of resources and "bonding" links that build trust strengthen a community's ability to adapt to change, but networks composed only of "bonding" links can impose constraining social norms and foster group homophily, reducing resilience. Diversity fosters the resilience needed to adapt to unexpected change, and can also enlarge the ability to proactively make collective decisions that optimize future options.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions (2014, background): “Not all social network structures, however, are equally facilitating (Bodin et al., 2006); some networks can impose constraining social norms that reduce adaptive capacities (Newman and Dale, 2005).”
• The role of social networks in natural resource governance: What relational patterns make a difference? (2009, background): “…(ii) mobilization and allocation of key resources for effective governance (e.g. Carlsson and Sandström, 2008; Carlsson and Berkes, 2005; Newman and Dale, 2007), (iii) commitment to common rules among actors fostering willingness to engage in monitoring and sanctioning programs (Dietz et al.,…”
• Enhancing the Fit through Adaptive Co-management: Creating and Maintaining Bridging Functions for Matching Scales in the Kristianstads Vattenrike Biosphere Reserve, Sweden (2007, background): “…or ties; networks composed of bridging links to a diverse web of resources can strengthen a community’s ability to adapt to change, but networks composed only of local bonding links, which impose constraining social norms and foster group homophily, can reduce adaptability (Newman and Dale 2005).”
• Research, part of a Special Feature on Resilience Through Multi-scalar Collaboration Surmountable Chasms: Networks and Social Innovation for Resilient Systems (2011, background): “Ultimately, the relationship between the phases of innovation and the network structures and ties still needs further study (Newman and Dale 2005, Gilsing and Duysters 2008, Bodin and Crona 2009).”
• Coupled Vulnerability and Resilience: the Dynamics of Cross-Scale Interactions in Post-Katrina New Orleans (2011, background): “Nearly one million people visited the American Red Cross website on the Wednesday following Katrina, a figure that was 32 times the average amount of traffic to the nonprofit organization’s website (Dang and Burris 2005, Noguchi 2005).”
• Community resilience to long-term tourism decline and rejuvenation: a literature review and conceptual model (2016, background): “The key characteristics of adaptive management and adaptive governance are central to resilient communities; these include; flexibility, diversity, efficiency and social cohesion (Newman & Dale, 2005; Norris, Stevens, Pfefferbaum, Wyche, & Pfefferbaum, 2008).”
• Who's in and why? A typology of stakeholder analysis methods for natural resource management. (2009, background): “In addition, individuals sharing weak ties may lack the trust and understanding that is needed for meaningful dialogue over environmental issues (Granovetter, 1973; Burt, 1992, 2000, 2001; Newman and Dale, 2005).”
• The future of risk assessment (2018, methodology): “[65,108,137,152,227]; • logical methods based on system analysis, hierarchical logic trees, game theory, etc.”