title: Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections.
abstract: In the last few decades, disaster risk reduction programs and climate initiatives across the globe have focused largely on the intimate connections between vulnerability, recovery, adaptation, and coping mechanisms. Recent focus, however, is increasingly paid to community resilience. Community, placed at the intersection between the household and national levels of social organization, is crucial in addressing economic, social, or environmental disturbances disrupting human security. Resilience measures a community's capability of bouncing back-restoring the original pre-disaster state, as well as bouncing forward-the capacity to cope with emerging post-disaster situations and changes. Both the 'bouncing back' and 'moving forward' properties of a community are shaped and reshaped by internal and external shocks such as climate threats, the community's resilience dimensions, and the intensity of economic, social, and other community capitals. This article reviews (1) the concept of resilience in relation to climate change and vulnerability; and (2) emerging perspectives on community-level impacts of climate change, resilience dimensions, and community capitals. It argues that overall resilience of a place-based community is located at the intersection of the community's resilience dimensions, community capitals, and the level of climate disruptions.
authors.affiliation: Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, 14 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637332, Singapore. shaikhmo001@ntu.edu.sg.
authors.forename: Shaikh Mohammad
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Kais
authors.affiliation: Division of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, 14 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637332, Singapore. msaidul@ntu.edu.sg.
authors.forename: Md Saidul
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Islam
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D057231:Climate Change; D003256:Community Participation / Q000523:psychology*; D004190:Disasters; D006801:Humans; D055500:Resilience, Psychological
keywords: climate change; community capital; community resilience; environment; vulnerability