Community Resilience

This book provides an alternative perspective on community resilience, drawing on critical sociological and social policy insights about how people individually and collectively cope with different kinds of adversity.

Katy Wright is Lecturer in Sociology & Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She is the Programme Director of the MA in Social & Public Policy and the Deputy Director of the Bauman Institute and of the Centre for Transdisciplinary Methodology.

1. Introduction 2. Resilience 3. Risk 4. Community, Cohesion and Organisations 5. Preparation and Planning 6. Response and Recovery 7. Adaptation and transformation 8. Community Resilience in the Covid-19 Pandemic 9. Conclusion