Build resilience and adaptive capacity

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Building Adaptive Capacity in Communities

Length:Discussion should be 100 to 300 words, depending on the topic/activity.

THEME: Partnering With Communities To Build Resilience And Adaptive Capacity

These next three weeks of the term are focused on theoretical concepts behind community action. First, we analyse how communities act in the context of emergencies, disasters and climate change. We unpack how a sense of community attachment might mean a community takes action. We also explore the concepts of social capital, community agency and community mobilisation. Drawing on Australia Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) resources, we then consider the key guiding principles of community engagement for disaster resilience. We will analyse these through the lens of resilience thinking, discussed in Theme 1. Finally, we consider how to take a strengths and asset-based approach to working with communities. For some of you working with communities may be new; however, others may have a lot of experience in this type of work. That's why it's important to share on the discussion board!

You need to start building up evidence for your assessment 2 (Presentation) on your discipline's understanding of working with communities and choose your case study from the ones provided.

You also need to start thinking about which case study you will use in Assessment 3.

2.1 WHY AND HOW DO COMMUNITIES ACT?

Discussion Board 2.1: Think about one of the communities you discussed in Discussion Board 1.2. (any community is okay like people living near coastal area or forest)
What types of bonding social capital are apparent in this community and what can you say about the types of bridging social capital and linking social capital?
What might be the effect of high levels of social capital should the community face a disaster, emergency or another health or social issue?
You may also wish to share your thoughts on community power and agency.
You need to post responses on the discussion board and respond to other students' posts on the discussion board by the end of the Theme (by week 5 Friday 5 April 4pm QLD time).

2.2 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES

2.2.1 THE NATIONAL PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FOR DISASTER RESILIENCE

Reading 2.3: Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR). (2020). Community engagement for disaster resilience. Commonwealth of Australia.

Developed by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience to guide engaging with communities in disaster risk reduction and resilience outcomes, they can also guide communities engaging with organisations and services. You will be analysing how your discipline is guided (or not guided by) these Principles.

Activity 2.2 and Discussion Board 2.2

What can you take away from this reading to apply to your own context?

How might a more sophisticated concept of complex adaptive systems thinking make a difference to the way the researchers went about their study?

Discussion Board 2.3:

We are unlikely to see all the six Principles of Community Engagement unfold in full. It is more a case of nudging towards the ideal that we can realistically work on and taking any opportunities that come our way to try and implement the best processes for the best outcomes in the circumstances. These principles provide us with an ideal direction towards which we can point our efforts.

1. How might these principles be understood in your discipline context?

2. Is there another principle that you think is missing?

Post your response on the discussion board. You need to post responses on the discussion board and respond to other students' posts on the discussion board by the end of the Theme (by week 5 Friday 5 April 4pm QLD time).

Discussion Board 2.4

After the reading post your responses to the reflective questions below and respond to your fellow students on the discussion board.

What is your understanding of 'transformative resilience'?

What do the authors mean by understanding communities as 'place-based systems'?

What are 'transformative capacities'?

How were you able to apply the thinking to your own context?

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