The EnRiCH Community Resilience Framework for High-Risk Populations

The EnRiCH Community Resilience Framework for High-Risk Populations

INTRODUCTION Resilience has been described in many ways and is inherently complex. In essence, it refers to the capacity to face and do well when adversity is encountered. There is a need for empirical research on community level initiatives designed to enhance resilience for high-risk groups as part of an upstream approach to disaster management. In this study, we address this issue, presentin...

The EnRiCH Community Resilience Framework for High-Risk Populations ΠPLOS Currents Disasters

Introduction: Resilience has been described in many ways and is inherently complex. In essence, it refers to the capacity to face and do well when adversity is encountered. There is a need for empirical research on community level initiatives designed to enhance resilience for high-risk groups as part of an upstream approach to disaster management. In this study, we address this issue, presenti...

Disaster E-Health Framework for Community Resilience

Disaster management and the health sector ought to be natural allies, but there are few examples of the collaborative planning and application of disaster healthcare involving emergency managers and care practitioners. The different origins, culture, and priorities of the various agencies tasked with disaster healthcare mean that communication and coordination between them is often lacking, lea...

Specifying Community Economic Resilience – a Framework for Measurement

This paper argues for a specific and measurable definition and a comprehensive and actionable framework for community economic resilience (CER). The paper focuses on how to specify CER; what attributes form CER; and how to measure CER based on its definition and attributes. The paper argues that CER can be specified through four guiding questions (‘Resilience of what?’; ‘Resilience to what?’; ‘...

Natural disasters and community resilience: A framework for support