Abstract
(Community resilience: definitions, conceptions, and applications). This review takes into consideration the definitions, the conceptions, and the applications in the field of community resilience. Definitions of community resilience include community resistance to collective risk factors as well as community preparedness and prevention. A theoretical model provided by AHPRU (1999) conceptualizes community resilience in term of the favorable combination of risk and protective factors. In the literature risk factors concerned disasters, high rate of criminality and violence, negative factors related to the policy, economy, geography, culture and society of the community. Protective factors concern mainly social resources (e.g. social support or sense of community) and, to a less extent, cultural, economics and political factors.Community resilience indicators were based on epidemiological or economic and political measures. Implications for interventions in the context of communities are discussed.
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