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DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW
Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 65-91Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/dpr.12201
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disasters; resilience; development; policy; systems
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Disasters pose a growing threat to sustainable development. Disaster risk management efforts have largely failed to arrest the underlying drivers of increased global risk: uncontrolled urbanization and proliferation of assets in hazardous areas. Resilience provides an opportunity to confront the social-ecological foundations of risk and development; yet it has been vaguely conceptualized, without offering a concrete approach to operationalization. We propose a conceptualization of disaster resilience centred on well-being: ` The ability of a system, community or society to pursue its social, ecological and economic development objectives, while managing its disaster risk over time in a mutually reinforcing way.' We present a conceptual framework for understanding the interconnections between disasters and development, and outline how it is being operationalized in practice.
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