More than Bouncing Back

Anne Cafer is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Mississippi, USA.John J. Green, formerly with the University of Mississippi, is Director and Professor with the Southern Rural Development Center and Mississippi State University, USA.Gary Goreham is Emeritus Professor at North Dakota State University, USA.

• Introduction The Limits of Current Models 1. Using disaster recovery knowledge as a roadmap to community resilience 2. The limits of resilience in US community responses to recent drought events 3. Community resilience: A meta-study of international development rhetoric in emerging economies Reconceptualizing and Measuring Resilience 4. Community resilience and community development: What mutual opportunities arise from interactions between the two concepts? 5. A Community Resilience Framework for community development practitioners building equity and adaptive capacity 6. Exploring the relationships between local agrifood system resilience, multiple measures of development, and health in the Southern United States Turning Theory into Action: Building Resilience 7. Can community interventions change resilience? Fostering perceptions of individual and community resilience in rural places 8. Agents of change—together: Using agent-based models to inspire social capital building for resilient communities