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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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Lack of scientific recordkeeping of disaster incidences: A big hurdle in disaster risk reduction in India
TL;DR: In this paper, a road map for disaster risk reduction in India is proposed based on in-depth analysis of the present situation and recommended road map includes enhanced focus on mass awareness to ensure voluntary compliance and to do away with political apathy.
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Inclusive Adaptation: Linking Participatory Learning and Knowledge Management to Urban Resilience
Michaela Hordijk,Isa Baud +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply the lessons of resilience thinking and experiences in community-based adaptation efforts to urban areas, and apply them to urban environments in the context of climate change.
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Vulnerability and Resilience Analysis of the Air Traffic Control Sector Network in China
TL;DR: The results show that the CASN has a lengthy average shortest path and a small clustering coefficient, which demonstrates a hybrid topological feature and it is found that betweenness has the greatest impact on the resilience and has managerial implications to understand the relationship between vulnerability and resilience in CASN.
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La résilience des systèmes socio-écologiques des États atolliens dans le contexte du changement climatique : le cas de Kiribati (Pacifique Sud)
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an estimation of the resilience of the systemes socio-ecologiques of the Republique de Kiribati, a country atollien situe dans l’ocean Pacifique, peuple par 100 000 habitants.
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Defining disaster resilience: comparisons from key stakeholders involved in emergency management in Victoria, Australia
TL;DR: The findings show that stakeholders see resilience as an 'ability' that encompasses emergency management activities and personal responsibility, however, the findings also highlight some possible points of conflict between stakeholders.
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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.