1st Edition
More than Bouncing Back Examining Community Resilience Theory and Practice
Introduction
Anne Cafer, John J. Green, and Gary Goreham
The Limits of Current Models
1. Using disaster recovery knowledge as a roadmap to community resilience
Sarah Jo Bundy Kirkpatrick
2. The limits of resilience in US community responses to recent drought events
Theresa M. Jedd
3. Community resilience: A meta-study of international development rhetoric in emerging economies
Rachel Haggard, Anne Cafer, and John Green
Reconceptualizing and Measuring Resilience
4. Community resilience and community development: What mutual opportunities arise from interactions between the two concepts?
Jim Cavaye and Helen Ross
5. A Community Resilience Framework for community development practitioners building equity and adaptive capacity
Anne Cafer, John Green, and Gary Goreham
6. Exploring the relationships between local agrifood system resilience, multiple measures of development, and health in the Southern United States
John J. Green, Jim Worstell, Caroline Canarios, Rachel Haggard, Katrina Alford, and Sydney Bush
Turning Theory into Action: Building Resilience
7. Can community interventions change resilience? Fostering perceptions of individual and community resilience in rural places
Marianna Markantoni, Artur Adam Steiner, and John Elliot Meador
8. Agents of change—together: Using agent-based models to inspire social capital building for resilient communities
Linda Shenk, Caroline Krejci, and Ulrike Passe
Biography
Anne Cafer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi, USA.
John J. Green, formerly with the University of Mississippi, is Director and Professor with the Southern Rural Development Center and Mississippi State University, USA.
Gary Goreham is Emeritus Professor at North Dakota State University, USA.
