Journal
DISASTERS
Volume 39, Issue -, Pages S1-S18Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/disa.12107
Keywords
disaster risk management; incremental adjustment; resilience; resistance; transformation; vulnerability
Funding
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [1229429] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Resilience is a ubiquitous term in disaster risk management and is an increasingly prominent concept in early discussions focused on elaborating the post-2015 international policy landscape. Riddled with competing meanings and diverse policy implications, however, it is a concept caught between the abstract and operational. This paper provides a review of the rise to prominence of the concept of resilience and advances an elaboration of the related concepts of resistance, incremental adjustment and transformation. We argue that these concepts can contribute to decision-making by offering three distinct options for risk management policy. In order to deliberately and effectively choose among these options, we suggest that critical reflexivity is a prerequisite, necessitating improved decision-making capacity if varied perspectives (including those of the most vulnerable) are to be involved in the selection of the best approach to risk management.
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