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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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Increasing the resilience of urban water utilities to extreme weather events
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors defined organisational resilience as the adaptive deployment of the utility s assets and structures within its continua of interdependences to improve and sustain performance even in the face of repeated perturbations.
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Roadmap layers and processes: resilient and sustainable care facilities
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative approach was adopted, starting with a literature review of different types of roadmaps and their suitability to support the desired improvement objectives, and the layers and processes were thus developed using the key issues identified in three recent research streams and the roadmap was structured.
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Tsunami-Resilient Preparedness Index (TRPI) as a Key Step for Effective Disaster Reduction Intervention
Wignyo Adiyoso,Hidehiko Kanegae +1 more
TL;DR: A new framework and approach for creating a culture of tsunami-resilient preparedness assessment/index (TRPI) to support decisionmakers and community in evaluating and preparing action to respond to the potential impact of a tsunami disaster.
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Community- based approach to reduce earthquake vulnerability in kathmandu valley
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the findings of research conducted in traditional settlements of Kathmandu Valley multiple case studies, household surveys, and community-based participatory research have identified that the culture of participation in local development activities and fundraising at the local level could contribute to disaster risk management.
Geographical Analysis of Offender Vulnerability: Modeling Coastal Hazards and Social Disorganization in Southern Mississippi
TL;DR: In this article, a principal component analysis (PCA) consolidated explanatory measures from the criminology literature into the Social Disorganization Index (SDI) and examined the spatial relationship to physically vulnerable areas, local crime patterns and offender support services in coastal Mississippi.
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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.