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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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A Natural Response to a Natural Disaster: The Art of Crisis in Nepal (Une réponse naturelle à une catastrophe naturelle : art de crise au Népal)
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the implementation and use of art therapy in the context of emergency and immediate post-emergency phases after a natural disaster and found that natural materials were incorporated into the therapeutic response to this natural disaster.
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Adaptive Capacity to Coastal Disasters: Challenges and Lessons from Small-Scale Fishing Communities in Central-Southern Chile
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the success and failures of small-scale fishing communities in the central-southern Chile since the massive February 2010 earthquake and tsunami, and draw lessons about the key factors of adaptive capacity among coastal resource user communities.
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ANDROID: An Inter-disciplinary Academic Network that Promotes Co-operation and Innovation among European Higher Education to Increase Society's Resilience to Disasters
TL;DR: The ANDROID project as discussed by the authors is an EU funded international partnership of higher education institutes and key actors in disaster resilience, which has been formed to develop innovative European education through a series of interlinked projects.
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At home in the post-tsunami landscape? : A case study of post-disaster housing in Aceh, Indonesia
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on an in-depth qualitative case-study in one rural village in Aceh, Indonesia, where more than 125,000 aid houses had been built by international non-government organisations (INGOs) within five years of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
From Disaster to Renewal: The Centrality of Business Recovery to Community Resilience.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlighted the strong sense of community in rural and regional Australia and the commitment of communities to "bounce back" from disasters, but they faced and continue to face a multitude of challenges to long-term adaptation.
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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.