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      Emergency Preparedness through Community Cohesion
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      An Integral Approach to Resilience

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      Emergency Preparedness through Community Cohesion book

      An Integral Approach to Resilience
      ByJean Parker
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 26 April 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441271
      Pages 216
      eBook ISBN 9780429441271
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Global Development
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      Parker, J. (2019). Emergency Preparedness through Community Cohesion: An Integral Approach to Resilience (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429441271

      ABSTRACT

      This book is a revision of the author’s original doctoral thesis on emergency preparedness through community radio in North Indian villages into a widening array of possible reapplications in other community development fields.

      The author expands on the process of transforming emergency preparedness education through community media in rural North India and applies this to the development of community-prosperity, defined simply as human and planetary well-being, anywhere in the world. A new theoretical framework is presented which combines the pivotal Integral Worlds Approach developed by Lessem and Schieffer with Critical Theory, thus exploring a new way to envision and implement social change, leading to innovation and social transformation.

      This book introduces the term "constructive resilience," which is a type of community-building that occurs alongside dominant societal structures that are either oppressive or ineffective. An evolving field of study and practice, it is emerging from the work of academics and community-builders who are members of the Bahá’í Faith. Bahá’í "consultation," a process of inquiry and decision-making, is offered as a systematic and effective method of defining problems and enacting solutions and is examined in the context of emergency preparedness education and local capacity-building.

      With its integral development approach, its unique combination of themes and theoretical components, and integration with the Bahá’í Faith, as well as its interdisciplinary nature, this book will be invaluable reading for researchers in many fields. It will be of particular interest in university-based training programs in disaster management and the various disciplines of international community development, as well as practitioners in the areas of micro enterprise, disaster management, community development, rural communications, rural economics and emergency preparedness education.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|10 pages

      Constructing resilience

      From preparing for emergencies to community economic sustainability

      part I|38 pages

      My inner and outer call

      chapter 2|20 pages

      An unlikely story

      My subjective inner calling and burning desire

      chapter 3|16 pages

      Defining the objective problem – disasters

      A challenge for India, humanity and the planet

      part II|24 pages

      Exploring the context

      chapter 4|22 pages

      The context

      Exploring Uttarakhand: “The Land of the Gods”

      part III|55 pages

      Co-creating for resilience

      chapter 5|17 pages

      Co-creating together

      Gaining knowledge through telling stories

      chapter 6|20 pages

      What goes wrong and what goes right

      Correcting the impediments to community cohesion and resilience, and analyzing imbalances in theory and practice in India and beyond

      chapter 7|16 pages

      How the research was done

      Reflections and new applications

      part IV|62 pages

      Contributing to transformation

      chapter 8|17 pages

      Transformational innovation

      The contribution of the Uttarakhand research to community resilience

      chapter 9|22 pages

      From theory to action

      Creating constructive resilience through reawakening community consciousness

      chapter 10|21 pages

      Implementing constructive resilience

      Co-creating community prosperity
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