Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness

By F. Norris, S. Stevens, B. Pfefferbaum, K. Wyche, R. Pfefferbaum. American Journal of Community Psychology, 2008

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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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In Emergency Medical Services

1. A. Masten
2. G. Bonanno
3. Sarah Klein
4. S. Romero
5. S. Galea
6. Stefan Korber
7. Mustafa Sarkar
8. Adam Rose

In General Health Professions

1. G. Bonanno
2. D. Fletcher
3. Mustafa Sarkar
4. Sarah Klein
5. S. Romero
6. Adam Rose
7. Paul Morgan
8. R. Gifford

In Sociology and Political Science

1. G. Bonanno
2. Adam Rose
3. Sarah Klein
4. S. Romero
5. Stefan Korber
6. Rod B. McNaughton
7. Eva Gifford
8. A. Masten

Citations in the corpus

• Community Resilience to Cyclone Disasters in Coastal Bangladesh (2016, background): “Other examinations of resilient community characteristics [33,34] interrogate further many of the terms used by IFRC, indicating more nuances and subtleties.”
• Resilience and entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review (2017, background): “Thus, the study of entrepreneurial resilience should focus on the “process linking a set of adaptive capacities to a positive trajectory of functioning and adaptation after a disturbance” (Norris et al., 2008, p. 130).”
• Defining and characterizing team resilience in elite sport (2013, background): “…by psychosocial factors such as caring relationships and effective 15 teamwork generated through trust, cohesion, creativity, collective efficacy, and relational 16 reserves (Blatt, 2009; Gittell, Cameron, Lim, & Rivas, 2006; Lengnick-Hall, Beck, & 17 Lengnick-Hall, 2001; Norris et al., 2008).”
• Measuring Capacities for Community Resilience (2010, methodology): “The purpose of this study was to measure the sets of adaptive capacities for Economic Development and Social Capital in the Norris et al. (2008) community resilience model”
• Exploring the contribution of rural enterprises to local resilience (2015, background): “In order to develop more sustainable and resilient communities, it is necessary to possess adaptive capacity in all three of these dimensions (McMorran, et al., 2014; Norris et al., 2008); i.”
• Measuring household resilience to floods: A case study in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta (2013, background): “It is also argued that the determinants of resilience may include demographic, social capital, cultural, economic, and political, aspects of the natural hazards, information, and the geographic setting of places (Gaillard 2007, Norris et al. 2008).”
• Resilience Processes in Development: Four Waves of Research on Positive Adaptation in the Context of Adversity (2013, methodology): “Integrating models and research on resilience • in ecosystems, social systems, and individual biology or neural systems (see Longstaff, 2009 ; Masten & Obradović, 2008 ; Norris et al., 2008 ) .”