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Abstract Building community resilience has become a national imperative. Substantial uncertainties in dynamic environments of emergencies and crises require real‐time information collection and dissemination based on big data analytics. These, in turn, require networked communities and cross‐sector partnerships to build lasting resilience. This viewpoint article highlights an interdisciplinary approach to building community resilience through community‐engaged research and partnerships. This perspective leverages existing community partnerships and network resources, undertakes an all‐hazard and whole‐community approach, and evaluates the use of state‐of‐the‐art information communication technologies. In doing so, it reinforces the multifaceted intergovernmental and cross‐sector networks through which resilience can be developed and sustained.
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Explicating the Concept of Transactive Resilience: Improving Cross-Sector Disaster Communication via Improving Cross-Sector Relationships
This study explicates a concept of transactive resilience for cross-sector disaster communication via integrating the transactive memory system and the network theory of social capital. The concept was validated through n=34 in-depth interviews with key disaster-responding organizations (public, private, and nonprofits sectors) of a U.S. city. Findings indicate that transactive resilience network is built on strong relational trust (interpersonal and informal relationships), perceived expertise (consensus/accuracy), and coordination and communication (two-way, flexibility, and optimal network characteristics).
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- Award ID(s):
- 2235583
- PAR ID:
- 10615255
- Publisher / Repository:
- Association for the Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
- Date Published:
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- Transactive resilience community resilience cross-sector relationships social networks disaster coordination and communication
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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