Siambabala Bernard Manyena

TL;DR: The concept of resilience is reviewed in terms of definitional issues, the role of vulnerability in resilience discourse and its meaning, and the differences between vulnerability and resilience.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored people's indigenous survival strategies and variations in people's ability to cope with floods in two flood-prone villages of Muzarabani district, Zimbabwe and found that the extent to which indigenous knowledge enhanced resilience to floods was influenced by geophysical locations, exposure to flooding and socioeconomic abilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the issues of institutional capacity to prevent, prepare and respond to disasters, and they adopt a non-intervention approach, using existing structures, to make them both a means and an end in themselves in building disaster resilience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the traditional institution of chieftaincy in many parts of Africa could potentially offer lessons in the theory and practice of resilience to disasters, and they argue that traditional chiefs should be viewed as a resilient and adaptable institution which is able to maintain its structure in both normal and repressive administrations largely in the interests of its communities.

TL;DR: This article investigated whether five post-2002 disaster legislations have shifted emphasis from the hazard to the vulnerability and resilience paradigms, and found that disaster legislation largely promote a centralised institutional framework with inadequate resource commitments and limited participation from vulnerable communities.