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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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Children and Disasters: Understanding Vulnerability, Developing Capacities, and Promoting Resilience — An Introduction
TL;DR: This comprehensive overview of the literature on children and disasters argues that scholars and practitioners should more carefully consider the experiences of children themselves and improve their access to resources, empower them by encouraging their participation, offer support, and ensure equitable treatment.
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Geographies of resilience Challenges and opportunities of a descriptive concept
TL;DR: In this paper, the transition of resilience from a descriptive concept to a normative agenda provides challenges and opportunities, and the need to move resilience thinking forward by emphasizing structural social-political processes, acknowledging and acting on differences between ecosystems and societies.
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A Theory on Urban Resilience to Floods—A Basis for Alternative Planning Practices
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a theory on "urban resilience to floods" as an alternative framework for urban flood hazard management, defined as a city's capacity to tolerate flooding and to reorganize should physical damage and socioeconomic disruption occur, so as to prevent deaths and injuries and maintain current socioeconomic identity.
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Climate change: New dimensions in disaster risk, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience
Allan Lavell,Michael Oppenheimer,Cherif Diop,Jeremy J. Hess,Robert J. Lempert,Jianping Li,Robert Muir-Wood,Soojeong Myeong,Susanne C. Moser,Kuniyoshi Takeuchi,Omar D. Cardona,Stephane Hallegatte,Maria Carmen Lemos,Christopher M. Little,Alexander Lotsch,Elke Weber +15 more
TL;DR: Barke et al. as mentioned in this paper, 2010: Adaptation to climate change: A review of challenges and tradeoffs in six areas, including vulnerability, exposure, vulnerability, resilience, exposure and resilience.
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Resilient regions in an uncertain world: wishful thinking or a practical reality?
TL;DR: The authors reviewed existing concepts of resilience and critically reviewed dominant neoliberal concepts of regional development, arguing that these must have a lighter environmental footprint and involve a greater degree of regional closure in and regionalisation of economic activities.
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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.