Building Community Resilience via Developing Community Capital toward Sustainability: Experiences from a Hakka Settlement in Taiwan

Rung-Jiun Chou and Feng-Tzu Huang
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Rung-Jiun Chou: Department of Landscape Architecture, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan City 32023, Taiwan
Feng-Tzu Huang: Liberal Arts Center/Department of Nursing, Da-Yeh University, Changhua 51591, Taiwan

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 17, 1-22

Abstract: Developing community capital is widely viewed as a way to address community resilience-related issues toward sustainability. Based on a Taiwanese, peri-urban, Hakka settlement, this article presents findings on the practical factors in the development of community capital via farm-to-table and community care, and their implications for a resilient, healthy community. It shows that community capital arising from the pond farming, pond education, and community service systems can interact to support its diversity and linkability. The pond-based social network is identified as the key to mitigating the impacts of community challenges regarding food safety concerns, environmental degradation, and aging population. It argues that the pond-based food landscape, communal network, and a borderless campus can enhance community capital as well as play significant parts in achieving community sustainability by promoting residents’ health and well-being.

Keywords: resilience; community capital; food landscape; community care; health; well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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