Improving the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh

Choudhury, Mahed-Ul-Islam; Wu, Haorui; Shahidullah, A.K.M.

doi:10.1002/sd.2686

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“…Choudhury et al's study (2024) on coastal cyclones in Bangladesh illuminates the enabling and impeding governance mechanisms that foster, or undermine, the inclusion of local‐level learning into DRR and climate action policies and projects. They highlight that ineffective local disaster governance and elite capture by strong engineering coalitions were the main impeding mechanisms, while collaborative and partnership‐based approaches and boundary spanners were the main mechanisms through which social learning and sustainability transformation could be scaled up.…”

Section: The Governance Dimension Of Resilience‐building In Societymentioning

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Understanding the social dimensions of resilience: The role of the Social Sciences in Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Action, and Sustainable Development

Imperiale

Vanclay

2023

Sustainable Development

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This special issue contributes to building an integrated social science perspective on resilience and resilience‐building. The articles in this issue provide theoretical reflections and empirical insights on two dimensions that characterize resilience in society. The first (local community dimension) comprises the set of community resources, services, adaptive, transformative and coping capacities, processes, actions and behaviors that enable communities to learn from crises, disasters and past failures and transform toward sustainability in localities (community resilience). The second (governance dimension) comprises the set of adaptive and transformative governance strategies and assessment frameworks that enable social learning and sustainability transformation to be strengthened in localities and scaled up across multiple governance levels (social resilience). This special issue provides a theoretical common‐ground and practical pathways to define resilience and to support recovery and development planning to enhance resilience in society in order to achieve effective disaster risk reduction and climate action for sustainable development.

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Section: The Governance Dimension Of Resilience‐building In Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding the social dimensions of resilience: The role of the Social Sciences in Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Action, and Sustainable Development

Imperiale

Vanclay

2023

Sustainable Development

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Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach

Choudhury,

Haque

2024

Env Pol Gov

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In this paper, we argue that, while it is necessary to modify existing policy using the lessons learned from disaster events (i.e., reactive learning), this approach is insufficient on its own for dealing with ongoing and emerging climate‐induced disaster risks. Rather, we assert that policymakers must also adopt a proactive and anticipatory learning approach that would enable policy learning and policy evolution in the absence of a major disaster event. We examine drivers, actors, and processes of change in disaster‐management policy paradigms in Bangladesh. A longitudinal learning perspective is applied. We categorize disaster management (DM) policy regimes into three learning episodes: (i) reactive, (ii) transitional, and (iii) proactive. The roles of reactive and proactive learning in shifting DM policy paradigms within these learning episodes are particularly determined. Finally, five interrelated factors that triggered proactive policymaking are identified, which are: risk‐oriented policymaking; cross‐scale (i.e., lesson drawing and policy transfer) and cross‐level (i.e., from local, regional, and national experience) learning; participation of multiple stakeholders; research‐informed and knowledge‐based policymaking; and the presence of a strong advocacy group and a participatory policy process.

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The ‘Butterfly Effect’: Identifying pathways for sustainability transformation through social processes of disaster resilience

Davis,

Reid,

Rogers

2024

Glob. Sustain.

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Non-technical summary We reviewed published research on natural hazards and community disaster resilience to identify how relationships between people and their experiences of disaster interact to shape possibilities for positive transformative change. Research commonly analyzes processes within and across individual and collective or structural spheres of a social system, but rarely investigates interactions across all three. We present a framework focused on ‘spheres of influence’ to address this. The Framework shows how positive relationships that prioritize restoring shared, meaningful and purposeful identities can lead to expansive and incremental capacity for transformative outcomes for sustainability: a process we liken to the butterfly effect. Technical Summary Sustainability and disaster resilience frameworks commonly neglect the role of agentive social processes in influencing wider structural transformation for sustainability. We applied relational agency and social practice theory to conceptualize transformative pathways for enhanced sustainability through a review of peer-reviewed literature relating to natural hazards and community disaster resilience. We sought to answer two questions: 1. What are the social practices that influence transformative change for disaster resilience in the context of individual, collective and structural spheres of influence? 2. What are the social influencing processes involved, identified through relational agency? We found that empirical studies tend to focus on individual and collective or structural spheres but rarely offer a relational analysis across all three. Our findings highlight that positive relationships that prioritize restoring shared, meaningful and purposeful identities can act as a resource, which can lead to expansive and incremental transformative outcomes for sustainability: a process we liken to the butterfly effect. We present a Sphere of Influence Framework that highlights socialized practices influenced by relationality, which can be applied as a strategic planning tool to increase capacity for resilience. Future research should explore how socio-political practices (the structural sphere) influence distributed power within collective and individual spheres. Social media summary Disasters can generate extraordinary social dynamics. So, how can we optimize these dynamics for enhanced sustainability?

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Improving the feedback loop between community‐ and policy‐level learning: Building resilience of coastal communities in Bangladesh

Cited by 3 publications

References 96 publications

Understanding the social dimensions of resilience: The role of the Social Sciences in Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Action, and Sustainable Development

Understanding the social dimensions of resilience: The role of the Social Sciences in Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Action, and Sustainable Development

Disaster management policy changes in Bangladesh: Drivers and factors of a shift from reactive to proactive approach

The ‘Butterfly Effect’: Identifying pathways for sustainability transformation through social processes of disaster resilience

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