Despite a notable increase in the literature on community resilience, the notion of ‘community’ remains underproblematised. This is evident within flood risk management (FRM) literature, in which the understanding and roles of communities may be acknowledged but seldom discussed in any detail. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate how community networks are configured by different actors, whose roles and responsibilities span spatial scales within the context of FRM. Accordingly, the authors analyse findings from semi-structured interviews, policy documents, and household surveys from two flood prone areas in Finnish Lapland. The analysis reveals that the ways in which authorities, civil society, and informal actors take on multiple roles are intertwined and form different types of networks. By implication, the configuration of community is fuzzy, elusive and situated, and not confined to a fixed spatiality. The authors discuss the implications of the complex nature of community for FRM specifically, and for community resilience more broadly. They conclude that an analysis of different actors across scales contributes to an understanding of the configuration of community, including community resilience, and how the meaning of community takes shape according to the differing aims of FRM in combination with differing geographical settings.

尽管有关社区适应力的文献显着增加，但“社区”的概念仍然存在问题。这在洪水风险管理（FRM）文献中是显而易见的，在该文献中，人们对社区的理解和作用可能得到承认，但很少进行任何详细讨论。本文的目的是演示社区网络是如何由不同参与者配置的，这些参与者的角色和职责跨越FRM范围内的空间尺度。因此，作者分析了来自芬兰拉普兰两个容易发洪水地区的半结构化访谈，政策文件和家庭调查的发现。分析表明，当局，民间社会和非正式参与者扮演多种角色的方式是相互交织的，并形成了不同类型的网络。言外之意，社区的配置是模糊的，难以捉摸的和位于周围的，并且不局限于固定的空间。作者专门讨论了社区的复杂性对于FRM以及更广泛的社区弹性的影响。他们得出的结论是，对不同尺度上不同参与者的分析有助于理解社区的构造，包括社区的适应力，以及根据FRM的不同目标以及不同的地理环境，如何塑造社区的含义。