@ARTICLE{Radkiewicz2025:i9072,
	author="{Radkiewicz, Oliwia}",
	title="{Social Resilience and Social Security in the Face of Disasters: A Case Study of the 2024 Flood in Poland}",
	year="2025",
	type="artykuł naukowy",
	language="en",
	journal="{Studia Administracji i Bezpieczeństwa}",
	issn="2543-6961",
	volume="19",
	number="19",
	pages="345--362",
	doi="10.5604/01.3001.0055.6418",
	url="https://studia.administracji.i.bezpieczenstwa.ajp.edu.pl/article/556418/pl",
	keywords="social security; flood; natural disasters; climate change; citizen safety; social resilience",
	abstract="{The article examines the social and institutional impacts of the September 2024 flood in southwestern Poland, focusing on social resilience. Using qualitative data from four semi-structured interviews with affected residents and a crisis-management expert, the study identifies multidimensional consequences: material damage, psychological distress, and social tensions linked to insufficient
coordination of institutional support. Procedural barriers to compensation disproportionately affected residents of smaller communities and people with lower educational attainment, weakening perceptions of safety and trust in public institutions. While community self-organization, mutual aid, and local solidarity helped mitigate losses, they were insufficient to offset the disaster’s full effects.
The article recommends improving early-warning systems, simplifying aid procedures, expanding professional psychological support, strengthening community-based initiatives, and modernizing flood-protection infrastructure. Findings are preliminary due to the small sample.}",
}