Journal
PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Volume 39, Issue 3, Pages 249-267Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0309132513518834
Keywords
co-designing knowledge; development geography; disaster risk reduction; resilience; vulnerability
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- FP7 project 'Enabling knowledge for disaster risk reduction in integration to climate change adaptation' (KNOW-4-DRR) [603807]
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In disaster science, policy and practice, the transition of resilience from a descriptive concept to a normative agenda provides challenges and opportunities. This paper argues that both are needed to increase resilience. We briefly outline the concept and several recent international resilience-building efforts to elucidate critical questions and less-discussed issues. We highlight the need to move resilience thinking forward by emphasizing structural social-political processes, acknowledging and acting on differences between ecosystems and societies, and looking beyond the quantitative streamlining of resilience into one index. Instead of imposing a technical-reductionist framework, we suggest a starting basis of integrating different knowledge types and experiences to generate scientifically reliable, context-appropriate and socially robust resilience-building activities.
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