Resiliencia comunitaria en entornos despoblados: propuesta de un instrumento de evaluación aplicado en Genalguacil

The intensifying and growing impact of rural depopulation necessitates the development of strategies for its analysis and approach, prioritizing those that link it to factors that improve the quality of life and well-being of the population. Community resilience, with a preventive purpose, transformative of structures and builder of a common identity, can be a protective factor against such a risk. To do this, it is necessary to evaluate it in such contexts. This paper presents the adaptation procedure and the application of the adapted version of the Analysis of the Resilience of Communities to Disasters (ARC-D) toolkit from GOAL (2016) in the municipality of Genalguacil, Málaga. The success of the adaptation and its capacity for adjustment to other contexts is concluded. The local focus on analysis, evaluation and the measures to be implemented is fundamental. These measures should raise awareness of risks and their socialization, working towards prevention and the transformation of causes. Working with communities and using available tools, but also creating new ones, is essential to combat depopulation.