Feng Kong. 2024. How Does Crisis Learning Contribute to Disaster Resilience?—A Case of Two Flood Disasters Caused by Rainstorms in Shouguang County on the North China Plain of China

How Does Crisis Learning Contribute to Disaster Resilience?—A Case of Two Flood Disasters Caused by Rainstorms in Shouguang County on the North China Plain of China

Feng Kong

Corresponding Author: Feng Kong, e-mail: kongfeng0824@foxmail.com

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Published online:04 February 2025

Abrtract:As an important branch of organisational learning, crisis learning can play a unique function in enhancing resilience in the fieldof disasters. However, the current knowledge and research on the relationship between crisis learning and disaster resilienceare very limited. By establishing the research framework of the “Subject‐Process‐Resilience Capacity” of crisis learning, thispaper indicates that resilience in the disaster field can be improved by the multiple subjects of the social system through crisislearning behaviour in the whole process of responding to disasters. Through the longitudinal comparative analysis of a case oftwo flood disasters caused by rainstorms in Shouguang County, this study found that the subjects of crisis learning are not onlypublic departments and governments, but also market subjects, social organisations and individuals. These multiple subjectscan adopt different crisis learning behaviours before, during and after disasters, so as to improve the preventive, response andrecovery capabilities of disaster resilience. In addition, the causal relationship between crisis learning and disaster resilienceexplored in this paper can also help enrich the connotation of resilience in the field of disaster research and provide referencevalue for social systems to enhance their resilience to natural disasters.

Keywords: Crisis learning;Disaster resilience;Multiple subjects;PPRR life cycle theory;Resilience capabilities

Contingencies Crisis Mgmt-2025-Zhang-How Does Crisis Learning Contribute to Disaster Resilience  A Case of Two.pdf

To link to this artical:  https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.70035