We’re in this together: Capacities and relationships to enable community resilience

Title

We’re in this together: Capacities and relationships to enable community resilience

 Author

Slingerland, G. (TU Delft System Engineering) ORCID 0000-0002-3938-2427
Edua-Mensah, M.E.J. (Student TU Delft)
van Gils, M.M.S. (TU Delft Science Education and Communication)
Kleinhans, R.J. (TU Delft Urban Studies) ORCID 0000-0002-5714-2128
Brazier, F.M. (TU Delft System Engineering) ORCID 0000-0002-7827-2351

 Date

2022

 Abstract

This paper studies how residents in the neighbourhood Bospolder-Tussendijken (BoTu) have dealt with the COVID-19 restrictions. Prior to the pandemic, significant investments in community-building were made to increase resilience of individuals and communities in BoTu. This paper identifies the key assets BoTu residents had developed and actually during this ultimate challenge. Interviews with formal and informal actors in BoTu revealed that community leadership, engaged governance, problem-solving ability, and information sharing environment were essential to adequately respond to the crisis, and were successfully deployed. The paper concludes with five policy implications to help strengthen capacities and relationships needed for community resilience.

 Subject

Community resilience
crisis management
governance
neighbourhoods

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2022.2036804

 ISSN

1753-5069

 Source

Urban Research & Practice, 16 (3), 418-437

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2022 G. Slingerland, M.E.J. Edua-Mensah, M.M.S. van Gils, R.J. Kleinhans, F.M. Brazier
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