IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/flgsxx/v45y2019i3p413-432.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Perceptions of disaster resilience in four Texas coastal communities

Author

Listed:
  • Kirby Goidel
  • Jennifer A. Horney
  • Paul M. Kellstedt
  • Emily Sullivan
  • Stephanie E. V. Brown

Abstract

Scholars and practitioners have long noted the importance of community resilience to disaster recovery and environmental risk mitigation. Yet we know surprisingly little about how local residents perceive the resilience of their local communities, including how closely their perceptions align with objective measures of resilience or whether these perceptions affect community engagement and support for resilience building activities and policies. In this paper, we utilise the results of public opinion surveys of residents of four Texas coastal shoreline counties (Brazoria, Nueces, Galveston, and Cameron) to address this gap in the literature. The results reveal that perceptions of community preparedness largely reflect social trust and disaster awareness while perceptions of recovery reflect perceived risks and preparedness.

Suggested Citation

  • Kirby Goidel & Jennifer A. Horney & Paul M. Kellstedt & Emily Sullivan & Stephanie E. V. Brown, 2019. "Perceptions of disaster resilience in four Texas coastal communities," Local Government Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(3), pages 413-432, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:flgsxx:v:45:y:2019:i:3:p:413-432
    DOI: 10.1080/03003930.2019.1571999
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/03003930.2019.1571999
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/03003930.2019.1571999?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Rubinia Celeste Bonfanti & Benedetta Oberti & Elisa Ravazzoli & Anna Rinaldi & Stefano Ruggieri & Adriano Schimmenti, 2023. "The Role of Trust in Disaster Risk Reduction: A Critical Review," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 21(1), pages 1-22, December.
    2. Pandey, Vivek & Singh, Shyam & Kumar, Deepak, 2022. "COVID-19, information management by local governments, and food consumption," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    3. Uttama Barua & Shahrin Mannan & Ishrat Islam & Mohammad Shakil Akther & Md. Aminul Islam & Tamanna Akter & Raquib Ahsan & Mehedy Ahmed Ansary, 2020. "People’s awareness, knowledge and perception influencing earthquake vulnerability of a community: A study on Ward no. 14, Mymensingh Municipality, Bangladesh," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 103(1), pages 1121-1181, August.
    4. O'Donohue, Katelyn & Berger, Emily & McLean, Louise & Carroll, Matthew, 2021. "Psychological outcomes for young adults after disastrous events: A mixed-methods scoping review," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 276(C).
    5. Emily Sullivan & Kirby Goidel & Stephanie E. V. Brown & Paul Kellstedt & Jennifer A. Horney, 2021. "Do hazard mitigation plans represent the resilience priorities of residents in vulnerable Texas coastal counties?," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 106(3), pages 2337-2352, April.
    6. Seol A. Kwon & Sang Il Ryu, 2020. "What Role Do Disaster Victims Play as the Mainstream for Future Disaster Preparedness in Korea? Case Studies of Foundations Established by Disaster Victims," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(10), pages 1-21, October.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:flgsxx:v:45:y:2019:i:3:p:413-432. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/flgs .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.