@article{ref1,
title="The influence of CoViD-19 on community disaster resilience",
journal="International journal of environmental research and public health",
year="2021",
author="Xu, Wenping and Xiang, Lingli and Proverbs, David and Xiong, Shu",
volume="18",
number="1",
pages="e88-e88",
abstract="Global pandemics, such as the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), have serious harmful effects on people's physical health and mental well-being. It is imperative  therefore that we seek to understand community resilience and identify ways to  enhance this, especially within our cities and communities. Therefore, great  emphasis is now placed on how cities prepare for and recover from such disasters,  and community resilience has emerged as a key consideration. Drawing upon research  on the theory of resilience, this study seeks to identify the factors that influence  community resilience and to analyze their causation toward helping to manage the  risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Seventeen factors from the five  dimensions of social capital, economic capital, physical environment, demographic  characteristics, and institutional factors are used to construct an index system. This is used to establish the structural level and importance of each factor. Data  were collected using a questionnaire survey involving 12,000 members of key  community groups in the city of Wuhan. An interpretative structural model (ISM)  combining the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method was then used to obtain the  multi-level hierarchical structure composed of direct factors, indirect factors, and  fundamental factors. The results show that the income level, vulnerability of the  population, and the built environment are the main factors that affect the  resilience of communities affected by COVID-19. These findings provide useful  guidance toward the effective planning and design of urban construction and  infrastructure. The results are expected to be useful to inform future  decision-making and toward the long term, sustainable management of the risks posed  by COVID-19.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1661-7827",
doi="10.3390/ijerph18010088",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18010088"
}