Integrating Relationality into Community Resilience: Enhancing Disaster Management Strategies
摘要
Community resilience has become a widely discussed concept in disaster management literature, as it promises to draw on the self-organization capacities of people and shifted the focus from individual and household preparedness to social networks. Relationality is important for community resilience, as community resilience depends on the relationship between institutions and local governance, as well as on the quality of the social bonds of the community members. Rather than focusing on the properties or functions of systems—as is typical in resilience research—relationality examines the relationships that constitute and drive these systems, which is important for disaster communication. This approach helps to understand how relationality can be improved to increase community resilience.