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The concept of resilience revisited.
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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
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Indigenous knowledge and the enhancement of community resilience to climate change in the Northern Mountainous Region of Vietnam
TL;DR: For example, ethnic minority communities in the north of Vietnam have developed complex farming systems well-adapted to their environments as discussed by the authors, based on indigenous knowledge concernees and knowledge concurrency.
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Resilience deficit index for quantification of resilience
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors provide a brief overview of how the dimensionless resilience index has been calculated in the past for buildings, and some of the shortcomings of that approach, and the use of a resilience deficit index is advocated to overcome some of these shortcomings.
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Scenario Design For Training Systems In Crisis Management: Training Resilience Capabilities
TL;DR: In this paper, a variable uncertainty framework (VUF) is presented for designing and configuring training scenarios which can be used to train capabilities such as flexibility and improvisation, aimed at increasing teams and organizations resilience.
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Recovering local sociality: learnings from post-disaster community-scale recoveries
TL;DR: The concept of machizukuri has been successfully applied to recovery processes in one of the Japanese cases as discussed by the authors, and the authors conclude that machizuki offers a valuable tool to foster better consideration of local sociality as an intrinsic component of communities' vulnerability and resilience.
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: The dynamics among poverty, vulnerability, and resilience: evidence from coastal Bangladesh
TL;DR: Ahsan et al. as mentioned in this paper have retracted the retracted article in Natural Hazards due to significant portions of text have been rephrased and the structure and presentation have been used without citation, knowledge and permission from another article previously published in Ecological Economics, [Akter, S., & Mallick, B. (2013) The poverty-vulnerability-resilience nexus: Evidence from Bangladesh.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.