Local understanding of community disaster resilience in rural Cambodia

Exercises of localism and lessons learned from villagers’ workshops

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ID21792003
AutoresYunjeong Yang (0000-0001-5203-071X, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume17
Fascículo5
Páginas471-481
Data de publicação2025-05-28
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoClimate and Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1756-5529 • E-ISSN: 1756-5537
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17565529.2024.2389230
OpenAlexW4401475136
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas46

Community disaster resilience has become a key concept in the field of climate change and development, but it often remains a third party’s terms (e.g. donors’ or researchers’) rather than being understood from local perspectives. In an attempt to understand it in local terms, and to exercise localism in seeking the next steps of a climate change adaptation project, this study used focal group interviews organized in a manner of local workshops in Battambang, Cambodia. Villagers were encouraged to speak about what they had (strengths and assets) and saw opportunities (although many were expected to come externally). Addressing threats, they pointed out some broader issues, such as market failure and structural power issues, such as crop pricing, which were never prioritized in the initial project, partly because of limited local participation in agenda setting. The strength of this research is its action-oriented data collection technique, which produced and shared findings that are meaningful to the community for possible interventions. The findings point to a holistic approach of (climate-driven disaster-) resilient development, which requires addressing governance and market issues. By engaging community members, we also hope these exercises have contributed to increasing their sense of ownership or to ‘agency facilitation’

Collective action · Community resilience · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Local community · Localism · Management · Political science · Politics · Psychological resilience · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Psychology · Social Psychology