Parrott, Elinor;
Bernardino, Andrea;
Lomeli-Rodriguez, Martha;
Burgess, Rochelle;
Rahman, Alfi;
Direzkia, Yulia;
Joffe, Helene;
(2023)
Community Resilience after Disasters: Exploring Teacher, Caregiver and Student Conceptualisations in Indonesia.
Sustainability
, 16
(1)
, Article 73. 10.3390/su16010073.
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Abstract
Despite the potentially catastrophic nature of disasters, survivors can be highly resilient. Resilience, the capacity to successfully adapt to adversity, is both individual and collective. Policymakers and academics have recently emphasised the importance of community resilience, but with little consideration of local survivors’ perspectives, particularly young survivors within low- and middle-income countries. Therefore, this exploratory study aims to give voice to disaster-affected caregivers, teachers and female adolescent students by examining their conceptualisations of community coping and priorities for resilient recovery following the 2018 Central Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami. A total of 127 survivors of the devastating disaster, including 47 adolescents, answered open-ended survey questions related to post-disaster resilience. A content analysis identified key constituents of community resilience. The results indicate that survivors highly value community cohesion and participation, drawing on the community’s intra-personal strengths to overcome post-disaster stressors. Student conceptualisations of and recommendations for a resilient recovery often differ from the views of important adults in their lives, for example, regarding the role played by the built environment, “trauma healing” and religiosity in the recovery process. These findings have implications for the design of disaster resilience interventions.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Community Resilience after Disasters: Exploring Teacher, Caregiver and Student Conceptualisations in Indonesia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su16010073 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16010073 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Disaster; post-disaster recovery; resilience; community resilience; community perspectives; open-ended survey questions; intervention development |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10184842 |
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