Journal ArticleDOI
The concept of resilience revisited.
TLDR
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.Abstract:
The intimate connections between disaster recovery by and the resilience of affected communities have become common features of disaster risk reduction programmes since the adoption of The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015. Increasing attention is now paid to the capacity of disaster-affected communities to 'bounce back' or to recover with little or no external assistance following a disaster. This highlights the need for a change in the disaster risk reduction work culture, with stronger emphasis being put on resilience rather than just need or vulnerability. However, varied conceptualisations of resilience pose new philosophical challenges. Yet achieving a consensus on the concept remains a test for disaster research and scholarship. This paper reviews the concept in terms of definitional issues, the role of vulnerability in resilience discourse and its meaning, and the differences between vulnerability and resilience. It concludes with some of the more immediately apparent implications of resilience thinking for the way we view and prepare for disasters.read more
Citations
More filters
Book
Building Community Resilience to Disasters: A Way Forward to Enhance National Health Security
Anita Chandra,Joie D. Acosta,Stefanie Howard,Lori Uscher-Pines,Malcolm V. Williams,Douglas Yeung,Jeffrey Garnett,Lisa S. Meredith +7 more
TL;DR: A report that provides a roadmap for federal, state, and local leaders who are developing plans to enhance community resilience for health security threats and describes options for building community resilience in key areas is shared.
Journal ArticleDOI
Resilience and entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review
Stefan Korber,Rod B. McNaughton +1 more
TL;DR: A systematic multi-disciplinary review of 144 papers that are categorized into six scholarly conversations to build the foundation for a critical discussion of each line of inquiry is presented in this paper, which identifies six conversations or research streams at the intersection of entrepreneurship and resilience: resilience as traits or characteristics of entrepreneurial firms or individuals, resilience as a trigger for entrepreneurial intentions, entrepreneurial behavior as enhancing organizational resilience, entrepreneurial firms fostering macro-level (regions, communities, economies) resilience, resilience in the context of entrepreneurial failure, and resilience as process of recovery and transformation.
Journal ArticleDOI
Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization
Julie Davidson,Chris Jacobson,Anna Lyth,Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes,Claudia Baldwin,Joanna C. Ellison,Neil J. Holbrook,Michael James Howes,Silvia Serrao-Neumann,Lila Singh-Peterson,Timothy F. Smith +10 more
TL;DR: In the context of accelerated global change, the concept of resilience, with its roots in ecological theory and complex adaptive systems, has emerged as the favored framework for understanding and responding to the dynamics of change as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Learning from the history of disaster vulnerability and resilience research and practice for climate change
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of older vulnerability and resilience research for contemporary investigations involving climate change, suggesting ways forward without disciplinary blinkers, is explored alongside critiques of the post-disaster "return to normal" paradigm.
Journal ArticleDOI
A risk and economic analysis of dirty bomb attacks on the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach
TL;DR: Analysis of possible terrorist attacks on the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach using a radiological dispersal device (RDD) to shut down port operations and cause substantial economic and psychological impacts suggests that the chances of a successful dirty bomb attack are about 10-40% and high radiological doses are confined to a relatively small area.
References
More filters
Book
At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
TL;DR: In this paper, the challenge of disasters and their approach are discussed, and a framework and theory for disaster mitigation is presented. But the authors do not address the problem of access to resources and coping in adversarial situations.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social Vulnerability to Environmental Hazards
TL;DR: The Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) as discussed by the authors is an index of social vulnerability to environmental hazards based on county-level socioeconomic and demographic data collected from the United States in 1990.
Journal ArticleDOI
Social and Ecological Resilience: Are They Related?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define social resilience as the ability of groups or communities to cope with external stresses and disturbances as a result of social, political and environmental change, and explore potential links between social resilience and ecological resilience.
Journal ArticleDOI
From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare resilience properties in two contrasting socioecological systems, lake districts and rangelands, with respect to the following three general features: (a) the ability of an SES to stay in the domain of attraction is related to slowly changing variables, or slowly changing disturbance regimes, which control the boundaries of the area of attraction or the frequency of events that could push the system across the boundaries.
Book
Land degradation and society
Piers Blaikie,Harold Brookfield +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a method of analyzing the problems of management and degradation, focusing particularly on the decision making environment of the land users and managers themselves, its great variety through space and time, and the inability of single theories to provide satisfactory explanations.