Researching resilience: An agenda for change

Drawing on a wide range of research - including disaster management, security studies, international relations and social sciences - this article offers a critical perspective on the current state of play in international research on disaster resilience. Some suggestions are made on how academic approaches can better interface with policy solutions to the wicked problem of disasters. The goal of this paper is to offer one potential roadmap of how research on resilience can help, not hinder, the broader policy agenda for increased societal security and disaster resilience.