Community Resilience: An Indicator of Social Sustainability

Magis, Kristen

doi:10.1080/08941920903305674

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“…According to Ogden et al, (2012) 27.5% of men were obese in 1999-2000. This prevalence rate rose to 35.5% by -2010. Among women, 33.4% were obese in 1999-2000-2010, it had increased slightly to 35.8%.…”

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“…This prevalence rate rose to 35.5% by -2010. Among women, 33.4% were obese in 1999-2000-2010, it had increased slightly to 35.8%. It is apparent that in 1999-2000, the prevalence of obesity was higher in women than in men.…”

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“…Walkable scores for selected three east Texas counties: physical activity and policy implications. International Journal of Human Sciences, 12(2), 674-687. doi:10.14687/ijhs.v12i2.3256 678 community issues such as poverty reduction and rural development in dry areas (Flora & Thiboumery, 2005), community resilience (Magis, 2010), sustainable livelihoods and community change (Gutierrez-Montes, Emery & Fernandez-Baca, 2009), childhood obesity (Flora & Gillespie, 2009), community transformation (Emery & Flora, 2006), and measuring success in communities (Jacobs, 2007). These studies resonate with the premise of this study about the walkability in selected east Texas counties.…”

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Walkable scores for selected three east Texas counties: physical activity and policy implications

Simiyu¹,

Njororai²,

Jivetti

2015

HumanSciences

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Introduction: Physical activity has become an important intervention against overweight and obesity cases in the USA and worldwide. One key aspect of physical activity is walking, which has been identified as a component that can easily be incorporated into one's lifestyle. Recent studies on physical activity have focused on promoting walking as a health enhancing endeavor. In 2010, the proportion of Texas adults who reported no participation in leisure time activity (26.7%) was significantly higher than the national average (24.4%). However, many Texans, like most Americans, are sedentary. Purpose: This study examined the walkability of the environments in selected counties in east Texas including Wood, Van Zandt and Smith counties. Methods and material: The data was drawn from the Walkscore.com and was based on all the zip codes in the three counties in east Texas. The community capitals were used a framework for analysis. Results: Only three (8.82%) zip codes had walkable scores between 70 and 89; five (14.71%) had scores between 50 and 69; four (11.76%) between 25 and 49 and 22 (64.71%) had a score below 24. Discussion: The vast majority (26, 76.47%) of zip codes are highly dependent on vehicle transport. Conclusions and recommendations: Stakeholders need therefore to focus on causes for the minimal walkability so that practical interventions are generated to enhance the physical activity friendly infrastructure so as to enhance the well-being of the residents in these three east Texas counties.

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Walkable scores for selected three east Texas counties: physical activity and policy implications

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Njororai²,

Jivetti

2015

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“…The alignment of the social domain with sustainability was unheard of prior to the 1990s (Omann & Spangenberg, 2002;Colantonio & Lane, 2007;Littig & Grießler, 2005;Magis, 2010). Colantonio (2009) identifies at least 27 approaches to social sustainability from essentially three overarching categories (Chiu, 2003).…”

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“…Quality of Life has been widely proposed for inclusion in sustainability assessments (Stiglitz et al, 2009). Sustainability of Community is concerned with the viability and functioning of society as a collective entity including its physical environment (Douvlou, Papathoma, & Turrell, 2008;Magis, 2010).…”

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From the Concept to the Measurement of Sustainable Competitiveness: Social and Environmental Aspects

Doyle

Perez-Alaniz

2017

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Conceptualizing holistic community resilience to climate events: Foundation for a climate resilience screening index

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The concept of resilience has been evolving over the past decade as a way to address the current and future challenges nations, states, and cities face from a changing climate. Understanding how the environment (natural and built), climate event risk, societal interactions, and governance reflect community resilience for adaptive management is critical for envisioning urban and natural environments that can persist through extreme weather events and longer‐term shifts in climate. To be successful, this interaction of these five domains must result in maintaining quality of life and ensuring equal access to the benefits or the protection from harm for all segments of the population. An exhaustive literature review of climate resilience approaches was conducted examining the two primary elements of resilience—vulnerability and recoverability. The results of this review were examined to determine if any existing frameworks addressed the above five major areas in an integrated manner. While some aspects of a resilience model were available for existing sources, no comprehensive approach was available. A new conceptual model for resilience to climate events is proposed that incorporates some available structures and addresses these five domains at a national, regional, state, and county spatial scale for a variety of climate‐induced events ranging from superstorms to droughts and their concomitant events such as wildfires, floods, and pest invasions. This conceptual model will be developed in a manner that will permit comparisons among governance units (e.g., counties) and permit an examination of best reliance practices.

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Community Resilience: An Indicator of Social Sustainability

Cited by 1,117 publications

References 29 publications

Walkable scores for selected three east Texas counties: physical activity and policy implications

Walkable scores for selected three east Texas counties: physical activity and policy implications

From the Concept to the Measurement of Sustainable Competitiveness: Social and Environmental Aspects

Conceptualizing holistic community resilience to climate events: Foundation for a climate resilience screening index

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