DOI: 10.19830/j.upi.2021.061
Rural Community Resilience: A Literature Review and Its Future Directions in China

Dong Xiaowan, Xu Yuhui, Li Xiangmei

Keywords: Rural Community Resilience; Rural Vitalization; Review; The Post COVID-19 Era; Rural Decline

Abstract:

Rural community resilience has been recognized as an emerging research agenda within rural studies in the face of rural decline globally. However, there are few domestic studies on the resilience of rural communities, and less attention is paid to its application in the field of rural development. This paper examines how researchers conceptualizing and applying this concept, and discusses its new research directions within the context of China’s rural vitalization. In this paper, we briefly introduce its historical roots. Then we provide a literature review of its paradigm shifts from reactive response to proactive response and desirable outcomes, its recent applications in rural disaster risk reduction and rural development. Finally, we argue that rural community resilience can provide a new community-driven perspective for rural vitalization in China, especially in the post COVID-19 era.

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