Youth Resilience to Drought: Learning from a Group of South African Adolescents

Linda Theron; Motlalepule Ruth Mampane; Liesel Ebersöhn; Angie Hart

doi:10.3390/ijerph17217896

Youth Resilience to Drought: Learning from a Group of South African Adolescents

Linda Theron, Motlalepule Ruth Mampane, Liesel Ebersöhn, Angie Hart

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Abstract

Exposure to drought is on the increase, also in sub-Saharan Africa. Even so, little attention has been paid to what supports youth resilience to the stressors associated with drought. In response, this article reports a secondary analysis of qualitative data generated in a phenomenological study with 25 South African adolescents (average age 15.6; majority Sepedi-speaking) from a drought-impacted and structurally disadvantaged community. The thematic findings show the importance of personal,
relational, and structural resources that fit with youths’ sociocultural context. Essentially, proactive collaboration between adolescents and their social ecologies is necessary to co-advance socially just responses to the challenges associated with drought.

Original language	English
Article number	7896
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Number of pages	14
Journal	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Volume	17
Issue number	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217896
Publication status	Published - 28 Oct 2020

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Keywords

African adolescents
climate change
co-productive approach
protective community
social ecological theory of resilience
Climate change
Social ecological theory of resilience
Co-productive approach
Protective community

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