Community Resilience and Oil Spills in Coastal Louisiana

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ID4240145
AutoresC E Colten (0000-0001-9549-3650, Louisiana State University), Jenny Hay (Louisiana State University), Alexandra Giancarlo (0000-0003-0250-5507, Film Independent)
Ano2012
Volume17
Fascículo3
Data de publicação2012-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoConservation Ecology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1195-5449 • E-ISSN: 1708-3087
EditoraResilience Alliance (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.5751/es-05047-170305
OpenAlexW2069069735
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas6

The persistence of communities along Louisiana's coast, despite centuries of natural and technological hazard events, suggests an enduring resilience. This paper employs a comparative historical analysis to examine "inherent resilience," i.e., practices that natural resource-dependent residents deploy to cope with disruptions and that are retained in their collective memory. The analysis classifies activities taken in advance of and following a series of oil spills within Wilbanks' four elements of community resilience: anticipation, reduced vulnerability, response, and recovery. Comparing local inherent resilience to formal government and corporate resilience enables the identification of strengths and weaknesses of these different categories of resilience. It also helps answer the questions: What forms of inherent resilience capacity existed prior to the formulation of formal contingency plans? How have communities drawn upon their own capabilities to survive without the infusion of massive external assistance? Have externally managed contingency planning procedures integrated or bypassed inherent resilience

Community resilience · Environmental planning · Environmental protection · Environmental resource management · Fishery · Geography · Oil spill · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Environmental Science · Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research