Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners’ frames and practices

Aldunce, Paulina; Beilin, Ruth; Howden, Mark; Handmer, John

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.10.010

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“…Evidence from climate change and development policy discourses further suggest that resilience is largely used to support the status quo and promote 'business as usual' (Leach 2008;Brown 2012). More recent conceptualisations of resilience-mostly with regard to human systems-give greater recognition to the potential need of a system to adapt and change its core structures and functions, with some cases even requiring complete transformation (Pelling 2010; Aldunce et al 2015). As a more radical agenda, resilience can thereby be recast from a concept that it is focused on returning a system to its original state, towards one that questions the underlying root causes of vulnerability and resilience (Pelling 2010;O'Brien 2012).…”

Section: Understanding Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…and the context of the internal social dynamics of the system. The abstract and malleable nature of the term, the lack of conceptual clarity and strong overlaps with related concepts each make the process of conceptualising resilience difficult (Aldunce et al 2015;Nelson et al 2007). With regard to the latter issue, uncertainty about the relationship between resilience and similar properties such as adaptive, coping and transformative capacities (Béné et al 2015) remains a source of contention.…”

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confidence: 99%

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‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters

2016

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How should we measure a household's resilience to climate extremes, climate change or other evolving threats? As resilience gathers momentum on the international stage, interest in this question continues to grow. So far, efforts to measure resilience have largely focused on the use of 'objective' frameworks and methods of indicator selection. These typically depend on a range of observable socio-economic variables, such as levels of income, the extent of a household's social capital or its access to social safety nets. Yet while objective methods have their uses, they suffer from well-documented weaknesses. This paper advocates for the use of an alternative but complementary method: the measurement of 'subjective' resilience at the household level. The concept of subjective resilience stems from the premise that people have an understanding of the factors that contribute to their ability to anticipate, buffer and adapt to disturbance and change. Subjective household resilience therefore relates to an individual's cognitive and affective self-evaluation of their household's capabilities and capacities in responding to risk. We discuss the advantages and limitations of measuring subjective household resilience and highlight its relationships with other concepts such as perceived adaptive capacity, subjective well-being and psychological resilience. We then put forward different options for the design and delivery of survey questions on subjective household resilience. While the approach we describe is focused at the household level, we show how it has the potential to be aggregated to inform sub-national or national resilience metrics and indicators. Lastly, we highlight how subjective methods of resilience assessment could be used to improve policy and decision-making. Above all, we argue that, alongside traditional objective measures and indicators, efforts to measure resilience should take into account subjective aspects of household resilience in order to ensure a more holistic understanding of resilience to climate extremes and disasters.

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‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters

2016

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“…Esta asimetría de información entre los actores clave puede causar confusión en las audiencias, poniendo a las personas ante riesgos innecesarios (Aldunce et al, 2014b), situación que puede ser observada como "externalidades negativas", producto de narrativas que exacerban el rol de los tomadores 15 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. de decisiones y expertos, al utilizar enfoques como "de arriba a abajo" y "comando y control". Como resultado de estas posturas mecanicistas, "un papel fundamental es dado a las agencias del gobierno y los profesionales en esta narrativa, que tiende a limitar el papel de las comunidades" (Aldunce et al, 2014a: 259).…”

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Encuadres del cambio climático en Chile: Análisis de discurso en prensa digital

Hasbún-Mancilla

Aldunce-Ide

Wells

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Este artículo presenta un análisis de discurso a cuatro medios de prensa digital en Chile respecto a la mitigación y la adaptación al cambio climático. La investigación, sin precedentes para el caso chileno, se orienta a conocer los encuadres noticiosos con que es comunicado el cambio climático, ya que los medios son la principal fuente de información del cambio climático para los tomadores de decisión y la ciudadanía. Los resultados muestran que los definidores primarios del tema son los actores gubernamentales de nivel nacional, y la invisibilización de las personas y organizaciones ciudadanas en el proceso. Vemos así un alto grado de consenso entre los actores visibilizados respecto al encuadre de oportunidad económica, y la ausencia de encuadres de ecología crítica. Las conclusiones apuntan a que este desbalance podría influir en un diseño de políticas públicas con un sesgo tecnocrático, perdiendo la posibilidad de construir una visión integral del desarrollo del país.

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“…More recent conceptualisations of resilience -mostly with regard to human systems -give greater recognition to the potential need of a system to adapt and change its core structures and functions, with some cases even requiring complete transformation (Pelling, 2003;Aldunce et al, 2015). Therefore, the resilience of a human system can be thought to comprise a range of different capacities and components, including, but by no means limited to: the capacity to absorb change (Nelson et al, 2007); preparedness and contingency (Twigg, 2009); innovation and learning (Adger, 2000); and renewal, reorganization and development (Folke, 2006).…”

Section: Understanding Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The abstract and malleable nature of the term, the lack of conceptual clarity, and strong overlaps with related concepts each make the process of conceptualising resilience difficult (Aldunce et al, 2015;Nelson et al, 2007). With regard to the latter issue, uncertainty about the relationship between resilience and similar properties such as adaptive, coping and transformative capacities remains a strong source of contention.…”

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confidence: 99%

Measuring 'Subjective Resilience': Using Peoples' Perceptions to Quantify Household Resilience

Jones

Tanner

2015

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Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners’ frames and practices

Cited by 128 publications

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‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters

‘Subjective resilience’: using perceptions to quantify household resilience to climate extremes and disasters

Encuadres del cambio climático en Chile: Análisis de discurso en prensa digital

Measuring 'Subjective Resilience': Using Peoples' Perceptions to Quantify Household Resilience

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