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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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Return to ‘a new normal’: Discourses of resilience to natural disasters in Australian newspapers 2006–2010
Anne Leitch,Erin Bohensky +1 more
TL;DR: The authors analysed resilience discourses in Australian newspaper articles from 2006 to 2010 and found that while the media discourse helps to illuminate what makes communities resilient to disasters, it also highlights how resilience can be undermined when: the term, used most often by actors at from outside the affected community, becomes an ‘aspirational rhetorical device'; place attachment manifests as ‘lock in’ whereby individuals cannot easily leave a disaster-affected community; emphasis post disaster is on reinstating the status quo rather than encouraging transformation; and excessive or inequitably distributed external assistance to a community threatens
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Hotels in contexts of uncertainty: Measuring organisational resilience
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Resilience measurement and conceptual frameworks: a review of the literature
Elena Serfilippi,Gayatri Ramnath +1 more
TL;DR: This paper compares conceptual and analytical models of resilience used by various development organizations, critically evaluating their strengths and weaknesses from a program implementation and measurement point of view and provides the reader with a clear synthesis of the literature and a classification system.
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Toward a dynamic model of organizational resilience
Zhenzhong Ma,Lei Xiao,Jielin Yin +2 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated concept of organizational resilience consists of three dimensions including cognitive, behavioral and contextual resilience, and this dynamic capability should be examined from three different levels, including individual, group and organizational levels.
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Disaster risk reduction legislations: Is there a move from events to processes?
TL;DR: This article investigated whether five post-2002 disaster legislations have shifted emphasis from the hazard to the vulnerability and resilience paradigms, and found that disaster legislation largely promote a centralised institutional framework with inadequate resource commitments and limited participation from vulnerable communities.
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