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Community resilience: a policy tool for local government?

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  • Deborah Platts-Fowler
  • David Robinson

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In many countries, local government has been a prime target of austerity measures. In response, local authorities are exploring a new repertoire of policy approaches in a bid to provide more with less. In England, local authorities have been drawn to community resilience as a pragmatic response to the challenge of deploying shrinking resources to support communities exposed to social and economic disruption. This application of resilience thinking is not without its challenges. It demands a working definition of community resilience that recognises the potential for communities to prove resilient to shocks and disruptions, but avoids blaming them for their predicament. There is also the practical challenge of developing and targeting interventions to promote and protect resilience. This paper sets out to explore these issues and establish the potential utility of community resilience as a policy tool through case study analysis in the city of Sheffield.

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  • Deborah Platts-Fowler & David Robinson, 2016. "Community resilience: a policy tool for local government?," Local Government Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(5), pages 762-784, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:flgsxx:v:42:y:2016:i:5:p:762-784
    DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2016.1186653
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    1. Feng Wu & Wanqiang Xu & Yue Tang & Yanwei Zhang & Chaoran Lin, 2022. "Gray Measure and Spatial Distribution Exploration of Local Emergency Resilience on Compound Disasters," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(17), pages 1-20, September.
    2. Luís Capucha & Nuno Nunes & Alexandre Calado, 2020. "Artificial Intelligence as a Resilient Tool for Fighting Inequalities in the COVID-19 Crisis," European Journal of Engineering and Formal Sciences Articles, European Center for Science Education and Research, vol. 4, May - Aug.
    3. Anthony McCosker & Anne Matan, 2018. "Barriers and Enablers to Planning Initiatives for Active Living and Health," Journal of Sustainable Development, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 11(1), pages 1-68, January.
    4. Christine Camacho & Roger T. Webb & Peter Bower & Luke Munford, 2024. "Adapting the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) Framework for England: Development of a Community Resilience Index," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 21(8), pages 1-25, August.

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