Background Framing: To what extent can a shared sense of place help build a resilient community that can withstand disaster? In the face of climate change and a world composed of increasing natural disasters, building resilient communities with strong networks of people and resources could be the difference between a community that thrives and one that […]
ENVS-ing my Big Word
Situated Context When I think about Resilience and resilient communities, I keep thinking back to my time in Lyttelton, New Zealand. I suppose that is my situated context, and it’s what I’ll be linking back to in my connective thoughts. If we’re doing concentration-style situated contexts, I would say this project is situated in geophysical […]
Social Capital in Disaster-Affected Areas
Background Framing Question: To what extent can social capital create concrete connections that could be utilized in a disaster? Social capital, or the resources available to people through their social networks, is argued to be “the strongest and most robust predictor of population recovery after catastrophe” (Aldrige 2011). Social capital, especially when organized with a community […]
Putting Theory into Action
For our final presentation of our own Better Big Words, we are supposed to come up with an artistic representation of some sort. Initially I was thinking of taking pictures that somehow model resilience, but then I realized that the content dog should wag the tail — my whole theory is about the potential of […]
Resilience in Social Systems
Within my better big word, I decided to focus on what social resilience would look like. I just read Debra Davidson’s article and picked out some of my favorite quotes, which I will think through in this post, in an effort to build some connecting thoughts with other ideas I’ve come into contact with. All systems, […]
Realms of Resilience: A Closer Look at C.S. Holling
Upon my initial reading of C.S. Holling’s piece, “Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems” I only partially understood his whole panarchy idea, I thought his models were intriguing but confusing, and it didn’t really occur to me how important his theory is to resilience. After going through the article again with Jim, it […]