Community Resilience: A Meta-Study of International Development Rhetoric in Emerging Economies

Understood generally, community resilience is the ability of communities to adapt, absorb, mitigate, and recover from shocks and stressors in such a way that facilitates positive future outcomes and reduces overall vulnerability to future shocks and stressors (Adger, 2000; Norris, Stevens, Pfefferbaum, Wyche & Pfefferbaum, 2008; USAID, 2013; Walker et al., 2004). The core of this definition relates to sustainability and the capability of socio-ecological systems and communities to adapt and transform to both day to day fluctuations and stressors as well as major disasters (Milman & Short, 2008; Walker et al., 2004). This meta-study seeks to shed light on how the large body of international development literature addresses, measures, and operationalizes community resilience. This analysis uses two resilience frameworks to understand and codify dominant themes in community resilience to assess whether the international development literature is holistically studying community resilience: touching upon nutrition, food security, economic security, and ecological sustainability.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A. in Sociology

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology and Anthropology

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Haggard, Rachel Ann

Contributors dc:contributor

• Anne Cafer
• John J. Green
• Jeffrey Jackson

• community capitals
• community resilience
• international development
• meta-study
• Sociology

Repository record dc:identifier

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/1599

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:egrove.olemiss.edu:etd-2598