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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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An integrated and dynamic framework for assessing sustainable resilience in complex adaptive systems
TL;DR: A high-level, integrated and dynamic framework for assessing sustainable resilience for complex adaptive systems is presented, including a set of functional definitions, a description of each step in the proposed assessment process, and an example application of the framework.
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Flood vulnerability and resilience assessment in China based on super-efficiency DEA and SBM-DEA methods
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors developed Chinese provincial scale flood vulnerability and resilience assessment models from an input-output perspective that accounted for socioeconomic, flood damage, flood driving and environmental factors.
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Measuring Resilience to Natural Hazards: Towards Sustainable Hazard Mitigation
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied a confirmatory factor methodology to operationalize the biophysical, built-environment, and socioeconomic resilience dimensions for local jurisdictions in large urban metropolitan areas in South Korea.
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How does resilience matter? An empirical verification of the relationships between resilience and vulnerability
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Household vulnerability to floods and cyclones in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
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