Community resilience to urban flooding in deprived areas: Household preparedness, collective dynamics, and institutional communication

This article examines community resilience to urban flooding in deprived areas, focusing on vulnerable neighborhoods in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Based on a household survey across flood-prone neighborhoods, it analyses how household preparedness, residential context, collective dynamics and institutional communication interact to shape flood resilience. The study uses an integrative community resilience framework that considers process, collective and structural dimensions. 

The key takeaway is that community flood resilience depends strongly on preparedness, neighborhood organization and the perceived quality of institutional communication. The findings suggest that socio-economic characteristics alone do not explain collective resilience, and that relational and organisational mechanisms play a central role. The article calls for multi-level flood resilience strategies that prioritizes community intermediaries, participatory governance and communication alongside infrastructure-based measures.