Social Learning and Resilience Building in the emBRACE Framework

Sharpe, Justin; Pearson, Lucy; Abeling, Thomas; Forrester, John; Deeming, Hugh

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“…This result is not consistent with findings of Owusu Twum and Abubakari (2019) who found evidence of social learning among communities in a study in Accra, Ghana. This can be accredited to limited interactive spaces to share knowledge as well as lack of communication with others, self-isolation and lack of family/friends nearby (Sharpe et al , 2018).…”

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The correlation between social resilience and flooding in low-income communities: a case of Mzuzu City, Malawi

Bwanali

Manda

2023

IJDRBE

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Purpose Floods are among the most frequent urban disasters in cities of the global south where capacity and resource limitations collude with rapid urbanization to force many poor people to live in flood prone settlements. This paper investigated the impact of flood disasters on social resilience of low-income communities in Mzuzu City, Malawi. Design/methodology/approach Using a quantitative design, 345 households were interviewed in Zolozolo West and Mzilawaingwe Wards in Mzuzu City. The survey instrument achieved a 100% response rate. A reliability test using Cronbach’s alpha showed internal consistency of survey instrument at 0.711 for Zolozolo West Ward and 0.730 for Mzilawaingwe Ward. Findings Out of the eleven indicators of social resilience used in this study, six indicators showed no correlation with the outcome expectancy of social resilience. Of the five indicators that showed relationship with social resilience, only improvisation and inventiveness (rs = 0.356, p = 0.000 at two-tailed, n = 213; rs = 0.610, p = 0.000 at two-tailed, n = 132) had a strong relationship with the outcome expectancy of social resilience. Research limitations/implications The study was only conducted in two settlements; caution should be observed when generalizing the results. Practical implications Practitioners should ensure that social resilience strengthening mechanisms are incorporated in flood risk management as they strive to achieve SDG 11 of making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. Originality/value The study showed how floods can negatively impact the social resilience of low-income communities, which is different from common knowledge that floods can enhance community social resilience.

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The correlation between social resilience and flooding in low-income communities: a case of Mzuzu City, Malawi

Bwanali

Manda

2023

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“…A very important perspective of learning, connected to the evolution of socio-economical systems, regards innovation [54,56]. Innovation, which is connected to the notion of resilience [37] is also linked with the development of technology, and, also, regarded as an aspect of social welfare, contributing to sustainable development and adaptability [34].…”

Section: Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With a focus on the process rather than the impacts, Coaffee et al [54] conceptualize innovation as a property of resilience, while Annarelli and Nonino [29] consider it as an enabler for resilience. The capacity to innovate is considered as an important step for the building of system's resilience [33,41], since innovation is strongly connected to adaptation [56].…”

Section: Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result of the above, despite the various theoretical backgrounds and the various suggested interpretations, a great number of experts from the technical to the social context, embraces the specific approach of considering resilience as an inherent collective systemic property [17,26,27,63]. A limited number of researchers so far has explicitly suggested that this inclusive understanding of resilience should be conceptually defined as an emergent property [56,64,65]. The conceptualization of the emergent property pertains to the Theory of Emergence, which served as foundation for systems thinking and the complexity theory [66].…”

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“…In addition to the above, the investigation of the resilience concept, especially in the context of urban systems is based on the understanding and the modeling of the diverse systemic structures, which gradually adopt more complex and multidisciplinary approaches. Particularly, hybrid forms of systems, like the socio-technical systems [65] and the system of systems [67] are developed to capture the complexity of the existing urban structures and to integrate recognized self-organizing capabilities and functions [5,56]. However, in spite of the progress of the relative modeling approaches, an integrated resilience framework covering complexity and interdisciplinarity is still missing [62].…”

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Social Learning and Resilience Building in the emBRACE Framework

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