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Community resilience to crime: A study of the 2011 Brisbane flood
Author(s) -
Wickes Rebecca,
Zahnow Renee,
Corcoran Jonathan,
Kimpton Anthony
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1002/ajcp.12610
Subject(s) - community resilience , flood myth , resilience (materials science) , preparedness , psychological resilience , poison control , criminology , environmental planning , sociology , geography , psychology , political science , computer science , environmental health , social psychology , medicine , physics , archaeology , redundancy (engineering) , law , thermodynamics , operating system
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.