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Disaster resilience: what it is and how it can engender a meaningful change in development policy
Author(s) -
Keating Adriana,
Campbell Karen,
Mechler Reinhard,
Magnuszewski Piotr,
Mochizuki Junko,
Liu Wei,
Szoenyi Michael,
McQuistan Colin
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
development policy review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.671
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1467-7679
pISSN - 0950-6764
DOI - 10.1111/dpr.12201
Subject(s) - operationalization , conceptualization , resilience (materials science) , sustainable development , urbanization , emergency management , environmental planning , disaster risk reduction , environmental resource management , risk management , business , political science , economic growth , economics , geography , computer science , physics , thermodynamics , philosophy , epistemology , finance , artificial intelligence , law
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.