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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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Health system resilience: Lebanon and the Syrian refugee crisis.
Walid Ammar,Ola Kdouh,Rawan Hammoud,Randa Hamadeh,Hilda Harb,Zeina Ammar,Rifat Atun,David C. Christiani,Pierre Zalloua +8 more
TL;DR: The study indicates that the Lebanese health system was resilient as its institutions sustained their performance during the crisis and even improved, according to a holistic view of the health system.
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Review of studies on the resilience of urban critical infrastructure networks
Wei Liu,Zhaoyang Song +1 more
TL;DR: This work reviews literature on six CINs, namely, water, drainage, gas, transportation, electric, and communication networks, and the resilience definitions, hazard categories, methodologies, and enhanced measures for each CIN are analyzed in detail.
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‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters
Lindsey Jones,Thomas Tanner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that, alongside traditional objective measures and indicators, efforts to measure resilience should take into account subjective aspects of household resilience in order to ensure a more holistic understanding of resilience to climate extremes and disasters.
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From theory to practice: building more resilient communities in flood-prone areas
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the elements that support or undermine community resilience to floods and propose ways of enhancing it, including support for social learning by building on existing knowledge, stressing the importance of developing a diverse set of flood management options, and promoting effective linkages and collaborations between community members and emergency managers to encourage collective flood management.
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Application of Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) and delineation of natural risk zones in Greater Lisbon, Portugal
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and a Varimax rotation to 46 variables representing social vulnerability of the 149 civil parishes of Greater Lisbon (Portugal).
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