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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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Attributes, challenges and future directions of community resilience
Bo Meng,Nan Li,Dongping Fang +2 more
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the connotation, attribute, and composition of community, resilience, and community resilience comprehensively by summarizing important issues and research progress in community resilience and put forward the research directions that future research can focus on.
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Increasing communities’ resilience to disasters: An impact-based approach
Tim Davies,Alistair J. Davies +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the contribution of disaster risk reduction to disaster impact reduction is assessed, and it is demonstrated that reducing event risk by reducing event probability only reliably reduces community disaster impacts for events that occur frequently.
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Rethinking the time and space of resilience beyond the West: an example of the post-colonial border
TL;DR: Critical resilience thinking is excessively fixated on resilience as participating in a neoliberal rationality of governance, while being itself shackled to the restrictive assumptions of crisis or crisis-or... as discussed by the authors.
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Bone Dry in Texas: Resilience to Drought on the Upper Texas Gulf Coast
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss how resilience thinking can assist planners and their communities in dealing with weather-related hazards, such as the Upper Texas Gulf Coast, during a period of drought.
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Male partners' perceptions of maternal near miss obstetric morbidity experienced by their spouses.
Scovia Nalugo Mbalinda,Annettee Nakimuli,Sarah Nakubulwa,Othman Kakaire,Michael O Osinde,Nelson Kakande,Dan K Kaye +6 more
TL;DR: While a maternal near miss obstetric event might appear as a positive outcome for the survivors, partners and caregivers of women who experience severe obstetric morbidity are deeply affected by the experiences of this life-threatening episode.
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From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What?
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