The critical role of community networks in building everyday resilience – Insights from the urban villages of Surabaya

This study explores the inherent interdependencies between microfinance social enterprises and two groups of women informal farm entrepreneurs and women informal tourism entrepreneurs in four impoverished rural regions in Iran. Using a qualitative constructivist grounded theory methodology, the findings suggest that women tourism entrepreneurs tend to engage in a greater coexistence of weak vertical and horizontal ties. In contrast, women farm entrepreneurs primarily develop strong horizontal ties. Consequently, members of the tourism group have greater opportunities to access a diverse range of resources, placing them in a more advantageous position along the opportunity–necessity entrepreneurship continuum. Guided by a network approach combined with strong structuration theory, this study develops a theoretical model that illustrates how these two groups of women entrepreneurs differently cope with gender constraints to grow their informal businesses. The findings highlight the need for tailored strategies and policies to empower various groups of subsistence women entrepreneurs.

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Building Urban Social Networks and Social Resilience to Natural Hazards at Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Uddin,

Antara

2024

Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability

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Disorganized and isolated poor people in urban regions are facing serious natural hazards (e.g., flood, cyclone, storm, drought), affecting their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Building urban resilience networks among disorganized people may promote their social resilience (SR) to the natural adversities aimed at achieving SDGs, including poverty reduction, equality and climate justice. Reviewing social science theory and literature, in this chapter we formulate an integrated theoretical framework that helps understand how integration in bonding, bridging and linking networks (BBLSNs) among social actors promote social processes (e.g., communication, interaction, learning etc.) that, in turn, increase their SR to natural hazards in the urban regions. Evidence in literature and case studies from Bangladesh suggests that integrative BBLSNs are more effective than disintegrative ones to promote social processes that, in turn, increase their SR to the natural hazards, thus achieving SDGs.

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The critical role of community networks in building everyday resilience – Insights from the urban villages of Surabaya

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Building Urban Social Networks and Social Resilience to Natural Hazards at Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

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