List of figures .............................................. viii
List of tables .................................................. x
1 Introduction ................................................. 1
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Bronfenbrenner's bioecolo^cal systems theory and climate
change I The context: climate change ......................... 1
Disaster risk reduction ...................................... 5
Resilience ................................................... 5
Challenges ................................................... 8
Bronfenbrenner's bioecological systems theory ................ 9
Summary ..................................................... 15
2 Rationale for the use of Bronfenbrenner's bioecological
systems theory to examine resilience ........................ 18
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Disaster logistics influencing policy formulation ........... 19
Essential interconnectedness of community organisations
in responding to disasters .................................. 21
Resilience revisited ........................................ 24
Resilience, a brief history of the concept .................. 25
Personal resilience ......................................... 26
Community resilience ........................................ 28
Measuring community resilience: the landscape of
resilience indicators ....................................... 30
The interdependence and interconnectedness of individual
and community resilience .................................... 31
Summary ..................................................... 34
3 Methodology: an application of Bronfenbrenner's
bioecological systems theory ................................ 39
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Measuring disaster resilience using the bioecobgical
systems Ьieory as a guiding framework: two case studies ..... 39
Methods ..................................................... 41
The flood disaster of Ingham ................................ 46
The bushfire disaster of Beechworth ......................... 52
Lessons learnt .............................................. 58
Implications ................................................ 59
Limitations and caveats for future investigations ........... 60
Summary ..................................................... 61
4 Individuals' disaster resilience ............................ 64
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The need to protect all people, especially the
vulnerable, from hazards .................................... 65
Proximal and distal effects of experienced disaster ......... 69
Transience of post-disaster distress and the reinstatement
of resilience ............................................... 71
Resilience as a process rather than a fixed innate trait .... 72
Empirical evidence to support claims about persorud
disaster resilience ......................................... 74
Are there disaster-specific resilience indicators? Some
examples for consideration .................................. 76
Summary of empirically derived personal resilience
indicators .................................................. 82
Conclusion .................................................. 82
Summary ..................................................... 83
5 The microsystem in disaster resilience ...................... 92
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The microsystem arui its importance in disaster
resilience .................................................. 93
Sense of place and disaster resilience ...................... 98
Children and adolescent disaster resilience ................ 103
Summary .................................................... 108
Implications and gaps ...................................... 109
6 The mesosystem in disaster resilience ...................... 114
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Social networks - structures and processes ................. 115
Bonding networks: families, close friends arui
neighbours ................................................. 117
Bridging networks .......................................... 118
Linking networks ........................................... 125
Fragmentation of networks .................................. 131
Integration of networks .................................... 134
7 The exosystem and the community in disaster resilience ..... 138
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The exosystem's relationship to resilience ................. 139
Infrastructure and protective structures ................... 141
Exosystem: essential services and insurance payments ....... 142
Communication and information .............................. 143
Social capital ............................................. 145
Loss of social capital ..................................... 146
Exosystem: connectedness and sense of place ................ 147
Roles and types of organisations ........................... 148
Community experiences of organisations ..................... 150
Economic impacts on organisations and communities .......... 151
Informal and community organisations ....................... 152
Organisations in the exosystem ............................. 153
Conclusion ................................................. 159
8 The macrosystem in disaster resilience ..................... 162
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The policy landscape ....................................... 163
Translation from the global to the local ................... 167
The impact of national and international policies on
community and iruHvidual disaster resilience and
vulnerability .............................................. 174
Conclusion ................................................. 181
9 The chronosystem in disaster resilience .................... 184
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Mesosystem - time, place and networks ...................... 185
The phases of a disaster ................................... 185
Macrosystem ................................................ 188
Exosystem .................................................. 189
Microsystem ................................................ 190
Research processes and time ................................ 190
Conclusion ................................................. 191
Conclusion .................................................... 194
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Index ......................................................... 200
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