Disaster resilience: What it is and how it can engender a meaningful change in development policy

Keating, A., Campbell, K., Mechler, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2239-1578, Magnuszewski, P., Mochizuki, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1000-4251, Liu, W. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3646-3456, Szoenyi, M., & McQuistan, C. (2016). Disaster resilience: What it is and how it can engender a meaningful change in development policy. Development Policy Review 35 (1) 65-91. 10.1111/dpr.12201.

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Abstract

Disasters pose a growing threat to sustainable development. Disaster risk management efforts have largely failed to arrest the underlying drivers of growing risk globally: 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 wellbeing: ‘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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