Overview

Very good review of community resilience as a ‘boundary object’. It discusses definitions, government/NGO strategies and what they cover. Although it does discuss social capital and community capital, the primary frame seem to be on structural aspects and processes of community reliance. That is, with the exception of the below segments:

Excerpts

• A section on Community Knowledge and a Maori perspective illustrates how consideration of “people, family, and community guardianship” is generally absent compared to “just the planning, architectural or structural components”.
• Grassroots engagement enables the formation of social networks and helps improve individual resilience through increasing social capital [101,125,126]. - What about social capital being community itself???
• Section on ‘Community Capital’
• Response and recovery