Animating inter-organisational resilience communication: A participatory social network analysis of water governance in the UK.

ABSTRACT: Resilience as a concept and resilience assessment as a practice are being explored across a range of social, ecological and technical systems. In this paper, we propose a new method and visualisation approach for interrogating the communication of resilience within organisational networks, using participatory social network analysis and message passing. Through an examination of the UK water sector organisational network, represented by multiple co-produced network graphs, we identify organisations having a key role in the communication of resilience regulatory and evidence messages, as well as highlighting the potential role of complexity tools in strategy formulation. Animations are presented showing the dynamics of resilience communication, which is discussed. Reflections on the use of

SUBMITTER: Ward S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7533369 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature