Community Resilience to Change: Development of an Index

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Title: Community Resilience to Change: Development of an Index
Author/Creator: Bec, Alexandra | Moyle, Char-lee | Moyle, Brent D
Description: Structural economic change is inherently impacting upon community systems. Sustainable and adaptive processes are critical for community systems to respond and manage economic structural change. Resilience is an emerging change management approach for sustainable regional development; yet, the literature is void of instruments for long-term structural change. This research developed an 18-item index for measuring resilience in this context. A three-stage approach was used to develop, test and validate the index items, including (1) review of existing indicators, (2) Delphi panel, and (3) resident survey. The index was developed over four dimensions and validated in two regional Australian communities. Future research should further test this instrument.
Relation: Social Indicators Research / Vol. Article in press
Relation: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-1960-x
Year: 2018
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Subject: FoR 1402 (Applied Economics) | FoR 1503 (Business and Management) | FoR 1608 (Sociology) | resilience | structural change | index development | delphi | sustainability | adaptive capacity

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