Resilient and Sustainable Communities

Alexandra Bec, Brent Moyle and Char-lee Moyle
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Alexandra Bec: Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs 4556, Australia
Brent Moyle: Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs 4556, Australia
Char-lee Moyle: Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs 4556, Australia

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-16

Abstract: This research advances our understanding of sustainable community development in relation to complex economic phenomena and psychological processes. The last decade has seen regional and global communities transition through unprecedented economic change. Community resilience offers a framework to guide regional development and explore the sustainability of social, economic and environmental systems to manage change. However, the fundamental constructs of community resilience are still not well known, such as the critical role of emotional stability and residents’ perceptions of change. This research explores this relationship in economies undergoing transformations by presenting the results of a survey administered to 663 Mackay and Whitsunday residents in Queensland, Australia. The findings add substantial depth to community resilience theory by demonstrating a positive relationship between emotional stability and resilience and a negative relationship between resilience and perceptions of change. The results also provide insight into the sustainable characteristics of communities to build resilience and manage the transformation process. Future research should focus on further testing the relationship between resilience, emotional stability and perceptions of change within communities at different stages of the transformation process.

Keywords: resilience; sustainability; emotional stability; perceptions; structural change; transformation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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