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Reading Between the Lines: How Community Climate Narratives Reveal Transformative Resilience Potential

Vigonich, Karin LU (2025) In Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science MESM02 20251
LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)
Abstract
Climate disruption poses existential threats to place-based communities, fundamentally challenging their collective identity and imagined futures. Transformative resilience, the capacity to "bounce forward" through fundamental system reorganization, represents one pathway through this crisis. Yet, despite widespread recognition of its importance, existing frameworks lack concrete methods to assess or cultivate transformative capacities before crises fully materialize. This thesis addresses this methodological gap by operationalizing Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) theory into a framework. By systematically analyzing how communities frame climate challenges, the framework reveals their latent transformative resilience potential and identifies... (More)
Climate disruption poses existential threats to place-based communities, fundamentally challenging their collective identity and imagined futures. Transformative resilience, the capacity to "bounce forward" through fundamental system reorganization, represents one pathway through this crisis. Yet, despite widespread recognition of its importance, existing frameworks lack concrete methods to assess or cultivate transformative capacities before crises fully materialize. This thesis addresses this methodological gap by operationalizing Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) theory into a framework. By systematically analyzing how communities frame climate challenges, the framework reveals their latent transformative resilience potential and identifies strategic intervention points. This novel approach offers a method for assessing the cognitive and communicative dimensions underlying resilience, providing practitioners with a diagnostic tool to evaluate a community’s potential for transformative resilience. (Less)
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author
Vigonich, Karin LU
supervisor
organization
course
MESM02 20251
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Transformative resilience, Post-traumatic growth, Climate narratives, Community transformation, Narrative revision, Mental models, Sustainabilty Science
publication/series
Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science
report number
2025:043
language
English
id
9199795
date added to LUP
2025-06-17 08:58:05
date last changed
2025-06-18 09:00:58
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  abstract     = {{Climate disruption poses existential threats to place-based communities, fundamentally challenging their collective identity and imagined futures. Transformative resilience, the capacity to "bounce forward" through fundamental system reorganization, represents one pathway through this crisis. Yet, despite widespread recognition of its importance, existing frameworks lack concrete methods to assess or cultivate transformative capacities before crises fully materialize. This thesis addresses this methodological gap by operationalizing Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) theory into a framework. By systematically analyzing how communities frame climate challenges, the framework reveals their latent transformative resilience potential and identifies strategic intervention points. This novel approach offers a method for assessing the cognitive and communicative dimensions underlying resilience, providing practitioners with a diagnostic tool to evaluate a community’s potential for transformative resilience.}},
  author       = {{Vigonich, Karin}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{Master Thesis Series in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science}},
  title        = {{Reading Between the Lines: How Community Climate Narratives Reveal Transformative Resilience Potential}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}