A multidisciplinary definition and evaluation of resilience: the role of social justice in defining resilience

Doorn, Neelke; Gardoni, Paolo; Murphy, Colleen

doi:10.1080/23789689.2018.1428162

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“…Yet, social vulnerability scholarship is replete with examples of barriers that preclude the realisation of social equity in planning, response, and recovery (Thomas, Phillips, Lovekamp, & Fothergill, 2013). For flood hazards, equity has received growing focus in examining the social dimensions of resilience (Comes, Meesters, & Torjesen, 2019;Doorn, 2017;Doorn, Gardoni, & Murphy, 2019), vulnerability (Collins, Grineski, & Chakraborty, 2018;Rufat, Tate, Burton, & Maroof, 2015), risk management (O'Hare & White, 2018;Thaler, Fuchs, Priest, & Doorn, 2018;Thaler & Hartmann, 2016), and justice (Kaufmann, Priest, & Leroy, 2018;Siders, 2019;Walker & Burningham, 2011). Media and government reports often describe disaster assistance in terms of total amounts authorised or allocated.…”

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Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding

Emrich

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Larson

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Environmental Hazards

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Deconstructing causal linkages between place attributes and disaster outcomes at coarse scales like zip codes and counties is difficult because heterogeneous socioeconomic characteristics operating at finer scales are masked. However, capturing detailed disaster outcomes about individuals and households for large areas can be equally complicated. This dichotomy highlights the need for a more nuanced and empirically-driven approach to understanding financial disaster recovery support. This study assessed how social characteristics influenced federal disaster recovery support following the 2015 South Carolina floods. Ordinary linear and spatial regression models provided a mechanism for pinpointing statistically significant links between individual/compound vulnerabilities and resource distribution from four federal disaster response and recovery programmes. The study makes two unique contributions. First, exploration of how social characteristics influence recovery support is a critical, yet understudied path toward fair and equitable disaster recovery. Second, finer scale inquiry across a large impact area is rare in quantitative case studies of US disasters. While we found flood recovery assistance to be strongly associated with physical damage overall the relationship was more tenuous in places with higher social vulnerability. Results indicate that future disaster recovery programs focusing on both physical damage and social vulnerable would lead to a more equitable disaster recoveries. Findings provide new understanding of equity at the intersection of social vulnerability, impacts, and disaster recovery and showcase both best-practices and areas for programme improvements for future disasters.

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Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding

Emrich

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Larson

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“…3. Doorn et al (2018)'s hesitance about the term 'engineering resilience' is an indicator for the limited view on resilience in engineering offered in Holling's work. 4.…”

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Urban resilience and distributive justice

Nagenborg

2019

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

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There is a growing awareness of the (potential) tensions between urban resilience and justice. This paper provides a systematic account of justice issues in the context of urban resilience to natural disasters. On the one hand, I will demonstrate that the underlying understanding of resilienceas bouncing back/forwardshapes our understanding of the interplay between justice and resilience. On the other hand, I will argue that we should not only avoid unjust outcomes in the process of building resilience but also consider resilience engineering as a way of promoting urban justice.

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“…The underlying premise of the paper is that there are different, partly contrasting, views on resilience, some of which are more easily reconcilable with justice than others. The first view of resilience, also discussed in the contribution by Doorn et al (2018) and referred to as 'narrow resilience', is resilience which is 'bouncing back' to some state of equilibrium. Here, we see potential tension between resilience and justice if the state of equilibrium is considered unjust.…”

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How can resilient infrastructures contribute to social justice? Preface to the special issue of sustainable and resilient infrastructure on resilience infrastructures and social justice

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2019

Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure

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Over the past two decades, the attention for resilience has increased dramatically and resilience has become the leading paradigm for considering risks and uncertainty in complex systems.Resilience is now commonly used within a broad range of fields. The concept has not only attracted the attention of academics; decision-makers across disciplines, sectors, and scales, also organize their risk strategies around the idea of resilience as resilience is often thought to lead to a betterthat is, a safer and more justsociety. However, the alleged link between resilience and justice is controversial. Some scholars argue that the resilience paradigm primarily benefits those people who are already reasonably well-off at the expense of disadvantaged groups. The focus in this special issue is on the relation between resilience, specifically 'resilient infrastructures', and social justice. While written from different disciplinary perspectives, all are centered around the question of how resilient infrastructures can contribute to social justice ARTICLE HISTORY

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A multidisciplinary definition and evaluation of resilience: the role of social justice in defining resilience

Cited by 134 publications

References 69 publications

Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding

Measuring social equity in flood recovery funding

Urban resilience and distributive justice

How can resilient infrastructures contribute to social justice? Preface to the special issue of sustainable and resilient infrastructure on resilience infrastructures and social justice

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