River and Surface Water Flooding in Northern England

This chapter discusses emBRACE case study research that was undertaken in Cumbria, a county in the north west of England. It explores the concept of community disaster resilience (CDR), as it was operationalised by a diverse population residing alongside a short, 47 km length of predominantly rural...

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Published inFraming Community Disaster Resilience pp. 177 - 196
Main Authors Deeming, Hugh, Davis, Belinda, Fordham, Maureen, Taylor, Simon
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 17.12.2018
Subjects
community disaster resilience
emBRACE investigation
Northern England
rural resilience
rural river catchment
sustainable livelihoods approach
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Summary:This chapter discusses emBRACE case study research that was undertaken in Cumbria, a county in the north west of England. It explores the concept of community disaster resilience (CDR), as it was operationalised by a diverse population residing alongside a short, 47 km length of predominantly rural river catchment. Accordingly, the emBRACE typology of community types was adopted so that particular social groupings could be distinguished between communities of geography; interest, circumstance, supporters/practice, and identity. The emBRACE investigation was initially based on the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA), an acknowledged method through which to investigate inter‐ and intra‐CDR in a wider context of social equity, sustainability, and capacity. The chapter describes the rural farming and rural village communities and those in the three main case study towns: Keswick, Cockermouth, and Workington.
ISBN:9781119165965
1119165962
DOI:10.1002/9781119166047.ch12