Leech, Tamara G J Adams, Elizabeth
Published in
Journal of community psychology
Social science research has focused on hot spots of adolescent violence in marginalized urban neighborhoods for nearly a century. In contrast, in this study, we explore under-resourced urban areas that do not experience high rates of adolescent violence: "pockets of peace." We use a mixed-method approach to identify the sociodemographic, geographic...
Li, Jiayang Nassauer, Joan Iverson Webster, Noah J. Preston, Stephanie D. Mason, Lisa Reyes
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Frontiers in Water
Understanding community members' flood risk perceptions is critical for developing new approaches to managing flood risks for climate resilience. “Risk as feelings” has informed research on how people perceive flood risks based on intuition and personal experiences, complementing experts' technical assessment. However, attention has been primarily ...
Cavalleri, Sofia Anna Enrica Tanwattana, Puntita Grünbühel, Clemens M.
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Introduction Situated approaches of rural livelihood diversification, such as community-based agritourism, can localize sustainable food systems at the regional level. This research advances an integrated framework of indicators to assess the interdisciplinary benefits of rural livelihood diversification practices for sustainable local food systems...
Nicola, Sanda-Elena Schmitz, Serge
peer reviewed / Despite the promises that the just transition will bring more democracy and prosperity, there are legitimate fears that, in some regions, the pre-existing inequalities will be reinforced rather than rectified. Questioning how community resilience can be stimulated prior to and during coal mining closures, this paper focuses on Jiu V...
Ramji, Rathi Carlson, Elisabeth Kottorp, Anders Rämgård, Margareta
Published in
Frontiers in Public Health
Background Public health practitioners have been striving to reduce the social gradient and promote physical activity among citizens living in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected these citizens extensively, has posed a significant challenge to efforts to maintain a physically active lifestyle. Thu...
Klepac, Steven Subgranon, Arthriya Olabarrieta, Maitane
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Frontiers in Built Environment
As coastal populations increase every year, greater numbers of people and buildings to support them are left vulnerable to severe hazards associated with hurricanes, which have shown signs of increasing strength and frequency related to climate change. Community-level decision making is essential to adequately prepare populations for the risks asso...
Gray, Summer
Published in
Disasters
While some communities appear to blossom in the wake of a disaster, others are left to struggle in the ashes. This article introduces the concept of conspicuous resilience to understand how emergent community-based recovery efforts privilege some needs while marginalizing others, contributing to uneven forms of recovery. Drawing on a qualitative ca...
Sulistyawati, Sulistyawati Sukesi, Tri Wahyuni Yuliansyah, Herman Khusna, Arfiani Nur Mulasari, Surahma Asti
Published in
Frontiers in Public Health
Nofal, Omar M. van de Lind, John W. Zakzouk, Ahmed
Published in
Frontiers in Built Environment
Wind hazards often result in significant damage to the built environment cascading into impacts on the socio-economic systems within a community. The increasing frequency and intensity of hurricane hazards highlight the importance of developing high-resolution wind hazard models to better predict the consequences. Although previous studies have inv...
Iglesias, Edgar Esteban-Guitart, Moises Puyaltó, Carolina Montserrat, Carme
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Frontiers in Education
One area of research that has important implications for preventing school failure is concerned with “resilient students,” or those children and youth learners who succeed in school despite the presence of adverse circumstances. However, this concept supposes a reductionist vision of the phenomenon of educational resilience by considering the indiv...
