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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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Integrating hazard, exposure, vulnerability and resilience for risk and emergency management in a volcanic context: the ADVISE model.
Costanza Bonadonna,Corine Frischknecht,Scira Menoni,Scira Menoni,Franco Romerio,Chris E. Gregg,Chris E. Gregg,Mauro Rosi,Sébastien Biass,Ali Asgary,Marco Pistolesi,Dehrick Guobadia,Alessandro Gattuso,Antonio Ricciardi,Chiara Cristiani +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an integrAteD VolcanIc risk assessment (ADVISE) model that focuses on two temporal dimensions that authorities have to address in a volcanic context: short-term emergency management and long-term risk management.
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Measuring Community Resilience to Disaster
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a rethinking of geography's conceptual model of population disaster resilience and the methods used for community resilience research, which is not necessarily indicative of community-scale processes, but rather describe individual-scale behavioral and household-scale socioeconomic characteristics.
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New Frameworks for Building Resilience in Hazard Management
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the public scrutiny of recent disasters stimulated changes in the legal framework of civil protection and governance policies related to natural hazards and associated vulnerabilities, and how the new institutional and legal framework was strategically integrated by local populations in their mitigation practices, appealing to past practices and memories but also to the new challenges posed by the building up of official emergency plans, hazard zoning and new technical instruments and practices.
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The Fragile State of Disaster Response: Understanding Aid-State-Society Relations in Post-conflict Settings
TL;DR: In this article, the challenges of disaster response in post-conflict settings such as Burundi have been discussed, where actors are confronted with an uncertain transition period and the need to balance roles and capacity.
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Hybrid Hidden Markov Models for Resilience Metric in a Dynamic Infrastructure System
Sixiang Zhao,Xiao Liu,Y. Zhuo +2 more
TL;DR: A resilience analysis framework and a metric for measuring resilience are proposed and nonhomogeneous Hidden Markov Models are designed to evaluate resilience capacities including adaptive capacity, absorptive capacity, and recovery capacity under different disruption scenarios.
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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.