Construction Of Community Research Articles

Arti perfomative, rigenerazione urbana e nuove cittadinanze


 
 
 This paper is based on the experience gained in European funded research projects. Despite the different objectives pursued by each project, the thread that connects them is the relationship between the performing arts and urban regeneration, in order to emphasise the importance of directly involving the territory and its inhabitants in urban regeneration processes. The research that has matured in the field of territorial co-design at national and European level was based on the conviction that the ultimate goal of urban renewal is not exclusively the quality and safety of life. In fact, the processes of urban renewal, when viewed from the perspective of social and cultural innovation, produce a collective participatory experience capable of overcoming the dichotomy between the public and private dimensions, guiding processes of 'commoning' (Chatterton 2010) or the preservation of the 'common good', which here takes the form of the production of relational goods, of community constructions (Manzini 2021). The aim of this essay is therefore to develop, within the framework of sociology, a reflection on the impact and value of culture in the context of urban renewal processes. The proposal is thus to re-read urban renewal from a culturalist perspective. To this end, it is important to define what cultural sociology studies as a theoretical premise in order to understand how important social practises and cultural participation are in defining social imaginaries and in defining related life, such as housing, consuming, producing, just to name a few areas. Therefore, shifting urban renewal to a participatory key, here I mean citizen participation through artistic practise, allows us to question models of individual and collective well-being, also in terms of well-being, which I believe must be at the heart of urban planning and design processes, in order to recognise the multidimensionality inherent in renewal and open new multidisciplinary paths.
 
 

The Influence of Social Support on the Mental Health of Elderly Individuals in Healthy Communities with the Framework of Mental Toughness.

This work aims to explore the impacts of social support measures such as analyzing greening urban spaces and improving greenspace quality on the mental health of the elderly based on the mental resilience framework to build a healthy community. Through literature research and a questionnaire survey, this study designs a questionnaire including basic information, a life satisfaction scale, a positive and negative emotion scale, social support rating scale, a life orientation test-revised version, and psychological resilience scale. In order to classify the scales, machine learning (ML) approaches are applied in this work. The results demonstrate great variations in the scores of the elderly with various health problems in the domain of psychological resilience (p<0.001). Social support and subjective well-being are strongly related (p<0.001). Additionally, positive correlations are observed among perceived, objective, and support use (p<0.001). Finally, it is found that psychological resilience and social support play a significant role in mediating mental health problems in elderly individuals. Therefore, social support measures such as analyzing greening urban spaces and improving greenspace quality can be adopted to improve the mental health of the elderly to build healthy communities. On this basis, this work is of certain reference value and practical significance for the construction of healthy communities and the positive influence on the mental health of elderly individuals.

Grazing practices affect phyllosphere and rhizosphere bacterial communities of Kobresia humilis by altering their network stability

The primary utilization strategy for meadow grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is livestock grazing. This practice is considered as one of the major drivers of plant-associated bacterial community construction and changes in soil properties. The species of Kobresia humilis is considered as the most dominant one in grasslands. However, how different grazing practices affect the phyllosphere and rhizosphere bacterial communities of K. humilis is unknown. To address this issue, the effects of the grazing enclosure (GE), single-species grazing (YG and SG, representing yak only and sheep only, respectively), and different ratios of grazing (ratio of yak to sheep is 1:2, 1:4, and 1:6, represented by MG1:2, MG1:4, and MG1:6, respectively) on the dominant plant of K. humilis, it's phyllosphere and rhizosphere bacteria, and soil properties were investigated using artificially controlled grazing and grazing enclosure. Our data showed that grazing enclosure enhanced vegetation coverage, and rhizosphere bacterial richness and diversity, while reduced plant number and bacterial network stability of K. humilis. The NO3−-N, K+, and Cl− concentrations were lower under grazing compared to GE. SG reduced the concentration of NH4+-N, TN, K+, and Na+ compared to YG. Moderate grazing intensity had a lower relative abundance of the r-strategists (Bacteroidota and Gammaproteobacteria) with higher bacterial network stability. Yak and sheep grazing showed reversed impacts on the bacterial network stability between the phyllosphere and rhizosphere of K. humilis. Proteobacteria and Actinobacteriota were identified in the molecular ecological network analysis as keystone taxa in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere networks, respectively, under all treatments. This study explained why sheep grazing has more adverse effects on grazing-tolerant grass species, K. humilis, than yak grazing, and will contribute to a better understanding of the impacts of different grazing practices and grazing enclosure on alpine grassland ecosystems on the QTP.

Research on security control technology of smart community based on personnel positioning management

Research on security control technology of smart community based on personnel positioning management

Information-Driven Integrated Healthcare: An Analysis of the Cooperation Strategy of County Medical Community Based on Multi-Subject Simulation.

The fragmentation and uneven quality of primary medical resources in China call for a deepening of integrated healthcare reform. China is promoting its county medical community (CMC) reform on a large scale in county-level administrative regions to promote the integration of local primary healthcare systems through information technology, which is consistent with the current trend of the digital governance era. Considering that the construction of a county medical community involves collaborative relationships between multi-level subjects, the evolutionary game theory was adopted in this study to construct a game model between the lead hospital of a CMC and primary healthcare institutions, and then the incentives of government department support were introduced to analyze the behavioral evolution of these three subjects. Taking into account the uncertainty of the real-life environment and information transformation, white Gaussian noise was introduced as a random disturbance term, and a numerical simulation was performed. In the two-subject model we focus on four parameters: information and management authority ceded by the primary healthcare institutions, integration coefficient of CMC information construction, intensity factor of information integration in the CMC, and medical resources delivered by the lead hospital. In the three-subject model we focus on three parameters: information and portion of authority ceded by the primary healthcare institutions and government departments, policy effect coefficient of CMC construction, and intensity of government departments' support for CMC construction. The simulation results show that there is a positive incentive for the concession of management power and information from the primary healthcare institutions to the lead hospital, but further determination of empowerment boundaries is needed. The lead hospital can improve the balance of medical resources in the county through the downward transfer of medical resources, but long-term resource delivery may inhibit the enthusiasm of the lead hospital. An improvement in the information integration intensity of the CMC can promote the efficient flow of information and knowledge and enhance the organizational closeness of the county medical community. At the same time, the integration of CMC information construction reduces the cost of collaboration among medical community members and streamlines and consolidates business modules, which can promote more efficient use of medical resources. The government departments' policies and funds provide obvious incentives to the lead hospital and primary healthcare institutions, but there is a need to explore appropriate financial payment ratios to balance the government's financial pressure.

Mechanisms for the construction of plant communities in the Gurbantunggut Desert, China

Analysis of the phylogenetic structure of a community based on the phylogenetic relationships among species in the community can reflect the ecological process of community composition and determine the mechanism of plant community construction. In this study, we analyzed the characteristics of the phylogenetic structure and diversity of plant communities in the Gurbantunggut Desert and their interactions with soil factors and explored the mechanisms of species maintenance in the communities. The results showed that the ecological traits of plants were conserved, habitat filtering was the primary process affecting plant communities, and the diversity of phylogeny was ranked as fixed dunes > semifixed dunes > mobile dunes. At different slope positions within the dune, there is greater phylogenetic diversity at the bottom and lower slope, and habitat filtering dominates community construction, with the dominant role of habitat filtering in the community diminishing as the slope position rises. The phylogenetic diversity of plant communities of different life types is ranked as short-lived plants > small trees and shrubs > annual and perennial herbs. On the bottom and lower slopes, short-lived plants and annual and perennial herbaceous communities are mainly influenced by habitat filtering. Habitat filterability decreased with increasing slope position. On the upper slopes and at the top, competitive exclusion effects between small trees and shrubs dominated. Our analysis shows that soil water content and organic carbon affect phylogenetic diversity mainly by influencing community species richness and that the interaction between soil water content, grain size and plant diversity leads to clustering of species with similar soil preferences, which in turn affects the phylogenetic structure of the community. In addition, the change from habitat filtering to intraspecific competition in plant community construction from the bottom to the top of the slope is mainly influenced by short-lived plant communities, and this type of plant needs to be given priority consideration in the conservation and restoration of desert plant communities.

Long-term application of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers changes the process of community construction by affecting keystone species of crop rhizosphere microorganisms

Keystone species of microbial communities play a very important role in community structure and ecosystem function; however, the effect of long-term nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) fertilizers on key taxa and the mechanisms of community construction of rhizosphere microbial communities remain unclear. In this study, the effect of nine fertilization treatments (N0P0, N0P1, N0P2, N1P0, N1P1, N1P2, N2P0, N2P1, and N2P2) on soil microbial community diversity, keystone species, and construction methods in the crop rhizosphere were studied in a loess hilly area after 26 years of fertilization. The results showed that fertilization significantly increased the nutrient contents of the rhizospheric soil and root system and significantly affected microbial community composition (based on the Bray-Curtis distance) and community construction process (β-nearest taxon index: βNTI). The decrease in the abundance of oligotrophic bacteria (from phyla Acidobacteriota and Chloroflexi) in the keystone species of bacterial communities shifted the community construction process from homogenizing dispersal to variable selection process and was significantly regulated by soil factors (total P and carbon-N ratio). However, the decrease in the abundance of keystone species (from phylum Basidiomycota) in the fungal communities did not have a significant effect on community construction, which was mainly affected by root characteristics (root N content and soluble sugar). This study found that long-term N and P fertilization changed the keystone species composition of bacterial communities by affecting the nutrient content of the rhizospheric soil, such as total P, so that the construction mode of communities changed from a stochastic to a deterministic process, and the N2 fertilization, especially the N1P2 treatment was better for increasing network stability (modularity and clustering coefficient).

Entrevista a Frei Betto

Frei Betto (Carlos Alberto Libânio Christo) was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1944. He is a Dominican friar and theologian, being among the most relevant and internationally recognised exponents of «liberation theology». This militant in pastoral and social movements resisted the Brazilian military dictatorship, under which he was imprisoned and endured torture: he related this experience in Baptism of Blood (Jabuti Prize, 1982) and in Letters from prison (1977). He was active in the construction of Base Ecclesial Communities and, during the first Lula Government, was adviser to the Presidency of Brazil for the Zero Hunger programme. He politically sympathized the socialist experiences in South America, and he has advised various governments, especially the Cuban government, on relations between the Catholic Church and the State. Among the dozens of works he has written, the following are worth mention (our translation): Fidel and Religion (1985), The Work of the Artist (1995), Hotel Brasil (1999), The Art of Sowing Stars (2007), A Man Called Jesus (2009), Mysticism and Spirituality (with L. Boff, 2010), Hunger for God (2014), Reinventing Life (2014), Paradise Lost (2015), A Very Human God (2015), Faith and Affection (2019), and Militant Jesus (2022).

Advances in the Application of Quorum Sensing to Regulate Electrode Biofilms in Bioelectrochemical Systems

Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are an emerging technology for wastewater treatment and resource recovery. These systems facilitate electron transfer between microorganisms and electrodes, enabling their application in various fields, such as electricity production, bioremediation, biosensors, and biocatalysis. However, electrode biofilms, which play a critical role in BESs, face several challenges (e.g., a long acclimation period, low attached biomass, high electron transfer resistance, and poor tolerance and stability) that limit the development of this technology. Quorum sensing (QS) is a communication method among microorganisms that can enhance the performance of BESs by regulating electrode biofilms. QS regulation can positively impact electrode biofilms by enhancing extracellular electron transfer (EET), biofilm formation, cellular activity, the secretion of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), and the construction of microbial community. In this paper, the characteristics of anode electrogenic biofilms and cathode electrotrophic biofilms in BESs, EET mechanisms, and the main factors affecting biofilm formation were summarized. Additionally, QS regulation mechanisms for biofilm formation, strategies for enhancing and inhibiting QS, and the application of QS regulation for electrode biofilms in BESs were systematically reviewed and discussed. This paper provides valuable background information and insights for future research and development of BES platforms based on QS regulation of electrode biofilms.

Dynamics of the Deviant Subculture Klitih Gang and Al-Fatah Transgender Boarding School in Yogyakarta

Klitih gangs in Yogyakarta, as a tangible form of juvenile delinquency, cannot be separated from the construction of the failure of environmental socialization and socialization of adolescent life in modern times. This study used interpretive approach (qualitative). Researcher digs deeper into how cultural criminology views the deviant subculture of youth members of the Klitih Gang and the dynamics of the Al-Fatah Transgender Islamic Boarding School as accurate facts. This article focuses on discussing several aspects that are interconnected with the school of cultural criminology, including (1) cases of youth violence and street crime by gangs of Klitih as a form of crime as culture; (2) community construction related to culture as crime against transgender groups, especially in the Al-Fatah transgender Islamic boarding school, Yogyakarta; (3) discussion on the realm of existentialist criminology in its allusion to ways of life, style, and semiotics. This phenomenon creates anomie in the dynamics of social life and requires efforts to harmonize both from a juridical and sociological perspective.

‘As we exploit the river, we should give something back’: A moral ecology of sand extraction

Sand is one of the most extracted materials in the world and a fundamental input for the construction sector. Currently, extraction rates exceed the natural rates of renewal locally and globally, why much literature on sand extraction focusses on environmental and social impacts. Sand extractors are often portrayed as external actors damaging local environments and communities, and limited attention has been granted to how sand extraction unfolds locally. Based on ethnographic research in western Colombia, this paper explores how manual sand extraction is conducted, organised and governed locally, its role in the local community, and how it relates to wider economic and political relations. Through the concept of moral ecology, I illustrate that manual sand extraction in the case is governed by notions of sustainability, reciprocity and solidarity. This ensures that extraction is done in a way that respects ecological cycles and contributes to the construction of community, proposing an alternative to environmentally and socially damaging ways of extraction. Nevertheless, the moral ecology of the dominant political-economic elites relies on notions of efficiency, legality and macro-economic responsibility. As long as these notions determine the terms of formalisation, the alternative form of extraction falls outside the legal framework.

Study on micro-mechanism of the affordable housing community in urban renewal the case of Zunyi city, Guizhou province

Introduction: Affordable housing in China refers to housing with social security for low and middle income people under the unified planning and coordination of the government. In the process of urbanization, the construction of affordable housing and commercial housing should be developed in parallel, but under the role of the real estate market economy, the development of the two is unbalanced, resulting in a disparity in quantity, a large gap in quality, unreasonable management, and even residential segregation. The construction and development of China's affordable housing community is a huge and complex systemic project. This study focuses on a series of problems in the relationship between supply and demand of affordable housing based only on the development context of urban renewal at this stage.Methods: Based on existing literature and official data, combined with field visits and research, this study uses Vensim PLE software to build a system model for converting various types of stock into affordable housing, and to investigate the effect of various policies on solving the problem of supply and demand of affordable housing.Results: The research results show that 1) the policies stimulate the increase of urban population and help promote the supply cycle of affordable housing; 2) under the stimulation of the supply policy of converting stock housing into affordable housing, social investment will improve by 33%–64% and the gap of affordable housing will decrease by 29%–58%; 3) under the stimulation of the policy of optimizing the management of affordable housing, the coverage rate of affordable population will improve by 3%–5% and the middle and low income households’ per capita housing floor area will increase by 9%–18% l; 4) under the comprehensive influence of the combined policies, the urban population will grow healthily, the per capita income and per capita housing floor area of low- and middle- income people will be improved, the stock of housing will be reduced, the number of affordable housing will increase, the affordable housing gap will be reduced, and the affordable housing community will be developed sustainably and healthily.Meaning: The research results and recommendations will provide references for the government and competent authorities to enact or update the policies on affordable housing.

Identification and relative contributions of environmental driving factors for abundant and rare bacterial taxa to thermal stratification evolution

The thermal stratification of reservoir affects water quality, and water quality evolution is largely driven by microorganisms. However, few studies have been conducted on the response of abundant taxa (AT) and rare taxa (RT) to thermal stratification evolution in reservoirs. Here, using high-throughput absolute quantitative techniques, we examined the classification, phylogenetic diversity patterns, and assembly mechanisms of different subcommunities during different periods and investigated the key environmental factors driving community construction and composition. The results showed that community and phylogenic distances of RT were higher than AT (P < 0.001), and community and phylogenic distances of the different subcommunities were significantly positively correlated with the dissimilarity of environmental factors (P < 0.001). Nitrate (NO3−-N) was the main driving factor of AT and RT in the water stratification period, and Mn was the main driving factor in the water mixing period (MP) based on redundancy analysis (RDA) and random forest analysis (RF). The interpretation rate of key environmental factors based on the selected indicator species in RT by RF was higher than that of AT, and Xylophilus (10.5%) and Prosthecobacter (0.1%) had the highest average absolute abundance in AT and RT during the water stable stratification period (SSP), whereas Unassigned had the highest abundance during the MP and weak stratification period (WSP). The network of RT and environmental factors was more stable than that of AT, and stratification made the network more complex. NO3−-N was the main node of the network during the SSP, and manganese (Mn) was the main node during the MP. Dispersal limitation dominated community aggregation, the proportion of AT was higher than that of RT. Structural Equation Model (SEM) showed that NO3−-N and temperature (T) had the highest direct and total effects on β-diversity of AT and RT for the SP and MP, respectively.

Machine-Thought and the Political Order

The most widespread statement of political philosophy is presented here in the simplified and trivialised form of “man is X; he must become Y. ” Man must do so at the same time for himself, for his own survival, but also for the good of all, of the Community, of the City: the plurality must absolutely, in any way whatsoever, give way to unity, subject to [sous peine] and under threat of chaos. The essential question found confronting political doctrines, moreover since the prominence of the idea of democracy is the following: how to bring about the existence of a united society across a heterogeneous social body? The response from philosophy articulates itself around three principle schemas: the theoretical construction of a unified community under the order of similar laws to those of nature (Platonic schema); the search for the best regime, which will have as its ultimate end the moderation and perpetual regulation of conflicts, by an optimal combination of freedom and stability (Aristotelian schema); and the theorisation of the “end of politics” by the locating of a “social wrong” inscribed in a structure doomed to collapse by the practical negation of its ideological foundations (Marxian schema and derivatives). The mode of thought which imposes itself here is decisional. Beyond the third schema which constitutes in some way a meta-political critique, and necessitates that it alone has a particular analysis, in the two preceding, man constitutes a kind of material – raw or primary, depending – that philosophy will work on, and sculpt to give it a form that harmonises fully with the Whole that it prescribes. In political philosophy, we always turn more or less around the “Let’s make man” of Hobbes, that is, around the technical transformation of a material given. Or to say it otherwise: the creation of an oeuvre from crude and imperfect elements, an oeuvre thought like a masterpiece – that is to say, one that contains within it an idea of perfection and permanence – but doomed here to serial reproduction.

The Model, Dilemma and Outlet of Resilience Governance of Grassroots Community from the Perspective of Risk Society

During the period of social governance transformation, China and even the world have entered a high-risk stage. In such a risk community, the community, as the basic unit of social organism, is a key link and important support for stabilizing social order and improving social governance in the face of sudden major risk events. From the perspective of community resilience, it not only undertakes the interdisciplinary mission of Community Governance, but also broadens the resilient governance pattern of combining hardness and flexibility in the community. However, the current community risk prevention and control in China also exposes the shortcomings and problems in the resilience governance of grassroots communities in terms of process resilience, structural resilience, psychological resilience, and technological resilience. In view of this, in the new risk society of the post pandemic era, it is necessary to enhance the diversification of community resilience governance entities, strengthen emergency management mechanisms, cultivate citizens' awareness and ability to respond to risks, accelerate the construction of smart communities, and gradually achieve normal and good governance of communities in high-risk societies.

The Maghreb Sociolian Achievement, Ibn Shanab's book on Algerian and Moroccan proverbs, as a model

Proverbs are part of the language of everyday speech, they cannot be studied outside of their relationship to society and language, the vocabulary of the proverbs is the surrounding area. The proverb carries a value and intellectual content and achieves and achieves them in content, and it shows the image of the social, intellectual and intellectual construction of the linguistic community.&#x0D; Proverbs is a field of research that attracts various specializations, and it is considered a linguistic and cultural heritage that is relied upon to support sayings and ideas.&#x0D; Among the first achievements in the study of Algerian and Moroccan proverbs is Ibn Shanab’s book, where its author collected common proverbs between the two countries, and these proverbs reflect an image of the language in circulation and the way of life at the time, and show the thinking of the Maghreb individual during that time period.&#x0D; This intervention aims to introduce Ibn Shanab’s effort in developing his book, and the methodology he followed in classifying it, without neglecting the reference to the importance of this type of studies in the social and linguistic aspects.

Non-traditional Diplomacy and the Construction of China-Arab Community With a Shared Future

Abstract Compared with the traditional diplomacy based on the behavior of national leaders and professional diplomats, non-traditional diplomacy relies on more diverse actors such as political officials, well-known scholars, academic institutions, business elites, ethnic groups, and media organizations to carry out strategic communication, policy interpretation, agenda setting and other practices with the people of other countries, so as to achieve the purpose of guiding public opinion and influencing government decision-making. During the development of relations between China and Arab countries, non-traditional diplomatic practices carried out in the form of government public relations, international communication, people-to-people exchanges, cultural and educational exchanges, which has effectively promoted policy communication, people-to-people and conceptual exchanges between China and Arab states. With the continuous deepening of the joint construction of the Belt and Road Initiative, non-traditional diplomacy will play a positive role in enhancing political trust, promoting economic and trade benefits, and fostering mutual appreciation of civilization, to expand the practical path, innovate the institutional mechanism and consolidate the foundation of public opinion for the construction of China-Arab community with a shared future.

Migration of rare and abundant species, assembly mechanisms, and ecological networks of microbiomes in drinking water treatment plants: Effects of different treatment processes

Microorganisms play an important role in the degradation of pollutants. However, they also cause problems in drinking water distribution systems, such as pipe corrosion and biofilm growth. The microbial assembly mechanisms and molecular ecological networks associated with different drinking water treatment processes have not yet been clearly analyzed. Therefore, this study investigated the microbiomes of three processes (coal filtration–activated carbon, ozone–activated carbon and UV, and ozone–activated carbon) during different seasons. The results showed that the microbial composition and diversity among the different processes and during different seasons. Water treatment processes had deterministic effects on the microbial assembly process and significantly changed the composition of rare and abundant species, altering the size and modules of molecular ecology networks. Rare species considered as keystone species play important roles in microbial ecology and microbial community construction. Ozone–activated carbon and UV/chlorination decreased the bacterial concentration, increased the deterministic process of microbial assembly, and significantly reduced the size of the network, which is of great significance to microbial control in drinking water. This research broadens our perspectives on the microbial assembly associated with drinking water treatment processes and contributes to ensuring the safe supply of drinking water.

Effect of different size microplastic particles on the construction of algal-bacterial biofilms and microbial communities

Algal-bacterial symbiotic system is a biological purification system that combines sewage treatment with resource utilization and has the dual effects of carbon sequestration and pollution reduction. In this study, an immobilized algal-bacterial biofilm system was constructed for the treatment of natural sewage. Effects of exposure to microplastics (MPs) with different particle diameters (0.065 μm, 0.5 μm and 5 μm) were determined in terms of algal biomass recovery efficiency, the composition of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and morphologic characteristics. The impacts of MPs on the bacterial diversity and community structure of biofilms were also examined. The metagenomic analysis of key microorganisms and related metabolism pathways involved in system was further investigated. Results showed that following exposure to 5 μm MP, a maximum algal recovery efficiency of 80% was achieved, with a minimum PSII primary light energy conversion efficiency (Fv/Fm ratio) of 0.513. Furthermore, 5 μm MP caused the highest level of damage to the algal-bacterial biofilm, enhancing the secretion of protein-rich EPS. The biofilm morphology became rough and loose following exposure to 0.5 μm and 5 μm MP. Community diversity and richness were significantly high in biofilms exposed to 5 μm MP. Proteobacteria (15.3–24.1%), Firmicutes (5.0–7.8%) and Actinobacteria (4.2–4.9%) were dominant in all groups, with exposure to 5 μm MP resulting in the highest relative abundance for these species. The addition of MPs promoted the related metabolic functions while inhibited the degradation of harmful substances by algal-bacterial biofilms. The findings have environmental significance for the practical application of algal-bacterial biofilms for sewage treatment, providing novel insights into the potential effects of MPs on immobilized algal-bacterial biofilm systems.

Improving flood early warning systems in Kabbe, Namibia: A situational analysis approach

The social, economic and environmental construct of communities formulates the core of the resilience capacity paradigm, which requires great consideration when developing, implementing and strengthening early warning systems. Though several guiding principles are documented in research, no single method for assessing community resilience exists, and complexities in quantifying capacities are often exacerbated by the diversity of probable hazard occurrence, interconnections between social, economic and environmental components, and difficulty in variable selection to gather data. By implementing a situational analysis approach, this study details an exploratory investigation into the socioeconomic and environmental constructs of rural high flood-risk communities to identify capacities that may be enhanced for improved flood risk reduction through participatory early warning system approaches. The perception is that, in the face of a disaster, even the most vulnerable communities possess some resilience, and this should be exploited for effective, long-term sustainable disaster reduction. The critical question then is: what social, economic and environmental capacities are available to communities to improve early warning system efficacy while building resilience against flood risks and improving their standard of living? The study reveals multiple options that form effective conduits for tailoring flood early warning systems to the exactitude of target community needs.