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Evaluating community flood resilience: an innovative social capital oriented framework
Ekundayo, Olutayo Cooper, Jamie Capewell, Lucinda
Ekundayo, Olutayo
Cooper, Jamie
Capewell, Lucinda
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2025-09-26
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Flood risk management strategies in many developed countries increasingly focus on building flood resilience at property, community, and national levels. However, existing research on community flood resilience (CFR) has thus far inadequately addressed the social dynamics underpinning interactions among key resilience dimensions. Despite limited recognition of the social dimension, factors such as social capital and sociocultural dynamics remain insufficiently explored, warranting further investigation. This study employs a modified Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) to critically review and synthesize research gaps, before presenting an innovative social-capital-oriented framework to evaluate CFR. While infrastructure, economic, environmental, human, and governance dimensions play significant roles, the proposed framework emphasizes the foundational role of social capital and sociocultural factors, including norms, values, and identities, in shaping resilience outcomes and actions. These factors influence the success or failure of resilience-building efforts, particularly in diverse, deprived communities, such as those with non-native speaking populations. This innovative framework offers insights for multisectoral stakeholders, including flood risk managers, engineers, surveyors, property owners, and local authorities, to address persistent challenges in resilience-building activities and improve intervention outcomes.
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Olatunji, E., Proverbs, D., Pathirage, C, Suresh, S., Cooper, J. and Capewell, L. (2026) Evaluating community flood resilience: an innovative social capital oriented framework. Journal of Flood Risk Management, 18 (4), article e70128. DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.70128
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© 2025 The Authors, published by Wiley. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence.
The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.70128.
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This work was funded through the UK government’s Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme (FCRIP), which is part of the government’s National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England. FCRIP is funded by Defra and managed by the Environment Agency.