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A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together to Build Community-Centred Resilience
Urban resilience research is recognizing the need to complement a mainstream preoccupation with “hard” infrastructure (electrical grid, storm sewers, etc.) with attention to the “soft” (social) infrastructure issues that include the increased visibility of and role for civil society, moving from (to...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8507759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639478 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910175 |
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author | Poland, Blake Gloger, Anne Morgan, Garrett T. Lach, Norene Jackson, Suzanne F. Urban, Rylan Rolston, Imara |
author_facet | Poland, Blake Gloger, Anne Morgan, Garrett T. Lach, Norene Jackson, Suzanne F. Urban, Rylan Rolston, Imara |
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description | Urban resilience research is recognizing the need to complement a mainstream preoccupation with “hard” infrastructure (electrical grid, storm sewers, etc.) with attention to the “soft” (social) infrastructure issues that include the increased visibility of and role for civil society, moving from (top-down, paternalistic) government to (participatory) governance. Analyses of past shock events invariably point to the need for more concerted efforts in building effective governance and networked relations between civil society groupings and formal institutions before, during, and after crisis. However, the literature contains little advice on how to go about this. In this paper, we advance a Connected Community Approach (CCA) to building community resilience with a specific focus on the relationship between community and formal institutions. In the literature review that informs this work, we assess the current, limited models for connecting communities to formal institutions, as well as the emerging role of community-based organizations in this work, and we offer our own assessment of some of the key tensions, lacunae, and trends in the community resilience field. Principally, we explore the potential of the CCA model, as spearheaded by the East Scarborough Storefront and the Centre for Connected Communities in Toronto, Canada, as a promising approach for building the relational space between civil society and the state that is so often called for in the literature. The paper concludes with future directions for research and practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-85077592021-10-13 A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together to Build Community-Centred Resilience Poland, Blake Gloger, Anne Morgan, Garrett T. Lach, Norene Jackson, Suzanne F. Urban, Rylan Rolston, Imara Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Urban resilience research is recognizing the need to complement a mainstream preoccupation with “hard” infrastructure (electrical grid, storm sewers, etc.) with attention to the “soft” (social) infrastructure issues that include the increased visibility of and role for civil society, moving from (top-down, paternalistic) government to (participatory) governance. Analyses of past shock events invariably point to the need for more concerted efforts in building effective governance and networked relations between civil society groupings and formal institutions before, during, and after crisis. However, the literature contains little advice on how to go about this. In this paper, we advance a Connected Community Approach (CCA) to building community resilience with a specific focus on the relationship between community and formal institutions. In the literature review that informs this work, we assess the current, limited models for connecting communities to formal institutions, as well as the emerging role of community-based organizations in this work, and we offer our own assessment of some of the key tensions, lacunae, and trends in the community resilience field. Principally, we explore the potential of the CCA model, as spearheaded by the East Scarborough Storefront and the Centre for Connected Communities in Toronto, Canada, as a promising approach for building the relational space between civil society and the state that is so often called for in the literature. The paper concludes with future directions for research and practice. MDPI 2021-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8507759/ /pubmed/34639478 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910175 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Poland, Blake Gloger, Anne Morgan, Garrett T. Lach, Norene Jackson, Suzanne F. Urban, Rylan Rolston, Imara A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together to Build Community-Centred Resilience |
title | A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together to Build Community-Centred Resilience |
title_full | A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together to Build Community-Centred Resilience |
title_fullStr | A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together to Build Community-Centred Resilience |
title_full_unstemmed | A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together to Build Community-Centred Resilience |
title_short | A Connected Community Approach: Citizens and Formal Institutions Working Together to Build Community-Centred Resilience |
title_sort | connected community approach: citizens and formal institutions working together to build community-centred resilience |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8507759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34639478 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph181910175 |
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