School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Am J Community Psychol. 2022 Dec;70(3-4):379-393. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12610. Epub 2022 Jun 28.
Understanding and enhancing community resilience is a global priority as societies encounter a rising number of extreme weather events. Given that these events are typically both sudden and unexpected, community resilience is typically examined after the disaster so there can be no before and after comparisons. As such, the extent to which existing community capacities buffer the effects of a traumatic event remains largely unexamined and untested in the literature. Drawing on a longitudinal study of 148 Brisbane suburbs, we examine the key community processes associated with community resilience to the crime before and after the 2011 Brisbane floods. We introduce a novel disaster severity index to simultaneously capture the direct and indirect impacts of the flood and embed this measure within our modeling framework. Results from the models provide important insights for predisaster preparedness and postdisaster rebuilding and recovery.
理解和增强社区弹性是当社会遭遇越来越多的极端天气事件时的一个全球优先事项。由于这些事件通常都是突然和意外的，因此通常在灾难发生后才会对社区弹性进行检查，这样就无法进行前后比较。因此，在文献中，对于现有社区能力在多大程度上缓冲创伤性事件的影响，仍然在很大程度上没有得到检验和测试。本研究利用对布里斯班 148 个郊区的纵向研究，考察了与 2011 年布里斯班洪灾前后社区弹性相关的关键社区过程。我们引入了一个新的灾害严重程度指数，以同时捕捉洪水的直接和间接影响，并将该措施嵌入我们的建模框架中。模型的结果为灾前准备和灾后重建和恢复提供了重要的见解。
