Community Resilience: A Potential Answer to the Emerging Pandemic

Halder, Somenath

There is a growing concern, on a global scale, about the ‘resilience’ and especially ‘community resilience’ amidst the emergency of new-pandemic (COVID-19) until the discovery of lifesaving drug(s). Though the term ‘resilience’ is widely used in various disciplinary platforms but metaphorically adopted in this piece to address peoples’ struggle for surviving and coping capacity under the vulnerable contagious environment, and restarting post-pandemic life. Thereafter, the encoded term ‘community’ coherently included for focusing the world’s community and also inherently scoping for addressing the issue of resilience hierarchically from large to small communities or like urban to rural communities. There is no doubt that the intruded COVID-19 brings a new threat to human civilization. Collectively various communities are adopting new adaptation strategies. While the methodology adopted is a review of literature from renounced contributors after rational examining, modification, and appropriate reconstructions of dimensions, as well as components or indicators. From a pandemic perspective, the four major dimensions of community resilience and their underside indicators are considered—Society and Economy, Environment and Climate Change, Infrastructure, and Administration and Governance. After a rigorous review of available focussed literature, it would not be inappropriate to state that the conceptual framework presented in this chapter could help measure the resilient power during the onset of a pandemic and reframe the policy proposal post-COVID survival.