Community Resilience Case Study

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I. INTRODUCTION Natural disaster and climate change are emerging as major threats to the coastal community who are living largely in small islands and coastal areas [1],[2]. Any issues caused by or associated with the potential impacts of natural disaster and climate change will have profound effects on the coastal community. Additionally, the community who relies on natural resources for subsistence and economic activities has been influenced over the last few decades. Therefore, all attention from researchers, environmental activists, and development practitioners has been increasing in terms of community resilience [3],[4],[5],[6]. As a small island, Maitara Island is one of the most impacted and vulnerable island North Maluku Province-Indonesia. …show more content…

Meanwhile, Resilience as a descriptive concept, with precise definition and meaning and operationalized quantitatively, can be applied to hard systems in physical, ecological, and climate hard sciences. Resilience, in this usage, can be dubbed as ecosystem resilience, ecological resilience, engineering resilience, or simply, resilience …show more content…

Therefore, many conceptual frameworks proposed to measure this concept [30],[31]. Overall, most of these frameworks put disaster resilience in the same way, in which they all focus on common factors that could reduce vulnerability and increase community resilience. Those factors include economic resources, assets and skills, information and knowledge, support and supportive networks, access to services, and shared community

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