Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Volume 35, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101096
Keywords
Community resilience; Disaster management; Disaster resilience; Resilience measurement; Resilience indicators
Funding
- University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka (UGCSL)
- Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia
Ask authors/readers for more resources
The role of social resilience in disaster management continues to gain increasing attention and interest from both researchers and practitioners. This paper critically reviews existing frameworks and methods to understand their application in a disaster context, to highlight key challenges and future directions for developing robust social resilience assessment frameworks. The analysis revealed a lack of consistency in key concepts used to measure social resilience to disasters. This results in significant confusion in the way key concepts are understood, interpreted, and applied. Due to the multi-faceted nature of social resilience concepts, there are pronounced theoretical and practical difficulties in carrying out a rapid, but rational, accurate, and meaningful assessment of social resilience to disasters. Many of the key process-oriented indicators are not included in the existent social resilience frameworks, since they are not easy to operationalise due to their dynamic nature. Therefore, a comprehensive social resilience framework that can be adapted to different contexts and integrated with specific measurement tools and guidelines is necessary. Such a comprehensive framework can make resilience measurement consistent across geographies by adapting it with context specific resilience characteristics.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available