Social cohesion and resilience across communities that have experienced a disaster
Social cohesion and resilience across communities that have experienced a disaster
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DOI：
10.1007/s11069-014-1526-4
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发表时间：
2015-03-01
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Fan, HaiYan
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作者：
Townshend, Ivan;Awosoga, Olu;Fan, HaiYan
灾难是具有灾难性影响的不可预测事件。现在的重点是在社区恢复过程中加强抗灾能力和能力建设。弹性文献也提出了灾害影响的阶段模型和弹性的阶段表现的可能性。它还指出了基于地方的社会凝聚力和复原力之间潜在的重要联系。本文报告了四个加拿大农村社区的凝聚力和恢复力指数的比较结果，这些社区经历了灾害和疏散，在应对和恢复力的可能不同阶段。巴克纳凝聚力指数和感知社区弹性指数在每个社区中检查凝聚力和弹性之间的关系（相关性）以及这些变量强度的差异。我们的研究结果表明，凝聚力和弹性之间存在显著的正相关关系，尽管这种关系的强度有所不同。研究结果还显示，凝聚力和弹性得分的平均强度存在地方特异性差异；还指出了每个社区灾难恢复的时间阶段。这些信息可以帮助制定灾难恢复计划，确保在关键时刻为遭受灾难的社区提供支持。还需要进行其他研究，对经历过不同类型灾害的社区进行比较，并在不同时期内记录复原力或凝聚力的任何变化，从而协助制定灾害政策和规划方案。
Disasters are unpredictable events that have catastrophic impacts. There is now a focus on disaster resilience and capacity building in the recovery of the community. Resilience literature also suggests a staged model of disaster impacts and likelihood of staged manifestations of resilience. It also points to a potentially important link between place-based social cohesion and resilience. This article reports on comparative findings of cohesion and resilience indices in four Canadian rural communities that experienced disasters and evacuation in potentially different phases of coping and resilience. Buckner's Index of Cohesion and the Index of Perceived Community Resilience are examined in each community for relationships (correlation) between cohesion and resilience and for differences in the intensity of these variables. Our findings show a consistent significant positive correlation between cohesion and resilience, although the strength of the relationship varies. Findings also show place-specific differentiation in the mean intensity of both cohesion and resilience scores; temporal phases of disaster recovery for each community are also noted. This information can help in disaster recovery planning by ensuring supports are available at key points in time for communities that experience disasters. Other research is needed that compares communities that have experienced different types of disasters and over time periods to document any changes to resilience or cohesion thereby assisting with disaster policy development and programme planning.