Stewardship, learning, and memory in disaster resilience

Tidball, Keith G.; Krasny, Marianne E.; Svendsen, Erika S.; Campbell, Lindsay K.; Helphand, Kenneth

doi:10.1080/13504622.2010.505437

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“…Now, the resilience concept has spread and this is not the place to review the large and expanding literature (e.g., Brand and Jax 2007, Janssen 2007, Brown and Westaway 2011, Xu and Marinova 2013, Baggio et al 2015, Desjardins et al 2015, Meerow and Newell 2015, Pu and Qiu 2016, close to an impossible task. But resilience is influencing the environmental sciences from agriculture to oceans as well as global environmental and climate change reflected in, e.g., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports (e.g., O'Brien et al 2012) and in risk and disaster management (e.g., Berkes 2007, Tidball et al 2010, McSweeney and Coomes 2011, Djalante et al 2013). Resilience thinking is raised in the development literature and in diverse ontologies and epistemologies of the social sciences and the humanities (e.g., Hamel and Välikangas 2003, Redman 2005, Hegmon et al 2008, Simmie and Martin 2010, Robards et al 2011, Crépin et al 2012, Plieninger and Bieling 2012, Ebbesson and Hey 2013, Hall and Lamont 2013, Lorenz 2013, Lyon and Parkins 2013, Barrett and Constas 2014, Chandler 2014, Tidball 2014, Bourbeau 2015, Hobman and Walker 2015, Marston 2015, Sjöstedt 2015, Weichselgartner and Kelman 2015 and with diverse reactions from excitement to those that oppose the approach for diverse reasons (reviewed by, e.g., Brown 2014…”

Section: Early Work On Resilience and The Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The latter concept is closely related to the theoretical concept of "remember" for reorganization , which has inspired studies on social-ecological memory as critical for resilience building as well as the role of biocultural refugia as pockets of social-ecological memory in times of change , Barthel and Isendahl 2013. The role of memory and sources of resilience are addressed in work on cultural landscapes and with links to senseof-place and deep identities as resilience features in adaptations and transformations (e.g., Turner et al 2003b, Crane 2010, Tidball et al 2010, Plieninger and Bieling 2012, Adger et al 2013, Tidball and Stedman 2013, Lyon 2014, Fernández-Giménez 2015. There is work on cultural resilience, often in relation to indigenous groups and cultures subject to change, emphasizing elements (e.g., resilience pivots, ancestral contracts) of a social-ecological system that endure despite adaptation or even transformation of other elements and in doing so support the persistence of the system's distinctive identity (e.g., Forbes 2013, Rotarangi and Stephenson 2014, von Heland and Folke 2014.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Resilience (Republished)

Folke¹

2016

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ABSTRACT.Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about cultivating the capacity to sustain development in the face of expected and surprising change and diverse pathways of development and potential thresholds between them. The evolution of resilience thinking is coupled to socialecological systems and a truly intertwined human-environment planet. Resilience as persistence, adaptability, and transformability of complex adaptive social-ecological systems is the focus, clarifying the dynamic and forward-looking nature of the concept. Resilience thinking emphasizes that social-ecological systems, from the individual, to community, to society as a whole, are embedded in the biosphere. The biosphere connection is an essential observation if sustainability is to be taken seriously. In the continuous advancement of resilience thinking there are efforts aimed at capturing resilience of social-ecological systems and finding ways for people and institutions to govern social-ecological dynamics for improved human well-being, at the local, across levels and scales, to the global. Consequently, in resilience thinking, development issues for human well-being, for people and planet, are framed in a context of understanding and governing complex social-ecological dynamics for sustainability as part of a dynamic biosphere.This invited article is a republication of Folke, C. 2016. "Resilience" of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science

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Section: Early Work On Resilience and The Environmentmentioning

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Section: Capturing Resiliencementioning

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Resilience (Republished)

Folke¹

2016

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“…People are more concerned by every day issues and the last big lahars event was in 2001 (9 years before our survey). People don't carry on the memory of past events, as shown in other studies on memory and risk exposure (Tidball et al 2010;Dominey-Howes and MinosMinopoulos 2004). It seems that the proximity to a source of risk can slightly influence this representation.…”

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The role of individuals’ risk representations in risk management - case-study on lahars in Arequipa (Peru)

Heitz

Shimabuku

2017

Geoenviron Disasters

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Background: In risk-prone areas, measuring risk representation can help implementing communication and disclosing information among the population, in order to increase individual initiatives to protect themselves and their properties or to provide a better knowledge of the appropriate measures to be adopted during or after a disaster. The perceived legitimacy of authorities disclosing information is a key issue in individuals' beliefs. Then, to compel the population to follow the authorities' recommendations and to adopt the suitable behaviour in case of a disaster, the information needs to be targeted, in order to take into account (a) the individuals' representation of the risk they incur and (b) the level of legitimacy received from the authorities in charge of risk management. Consequently, the question of the modalities to qualify the relations between information and representation and risk management arises? Results: To solve this issue at the foot of El Misti Volcano (Arequipa, Peru), we conducted surveys in lahars (debris flows on and from volcanic slopes)-prone areas and unexposed ones. The methodology is based on selfadministrated questionnaires (N = 209). The results show that respondents endow legitimacy in risk reduction (more than 70%) to a national authority (Defensa Civil) in charge of the management of risk in the city of Arequipa. More than 64% of the respondents consider that they are not sufficiently informed on the behaviours to adopt in case of a disaster. It leads to a weak implication of the respondents in the adoption of individual initiatives to protect themselves (23%) and to important expectations towards authorities' actions in decreasing their vulnerability (50%). Conclusion: Such results are relevant to other context as mentioned in the literature: knowing the nature of the link between self-protection, prevention policies and national regulation is essential to decide the best way to manage risk.

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“…For instance, they can increase local biodiversity (Matteson et al 2008, Matteson andLangellotto 2011); they can foster environmental learning and combat generational amnesia (Bendt et al 2013); they can inspire and reinforce some forms of engagement toward nature and conservation (Krasny and Tidball 2012); they can increase nutritional education (Somerset et al 2005, D'Abundo andCarden 2008); they can procure psychological benefits, mainly by reducing mental fatigue (Kaplan 1973), and promote health (Armstrong 2000); they contribute to individual, household, and community food security (Corrigan 2011); they can improve environmental sustainability (Stocker and Barnett 1998) and sustainable land uses and planning (Irvine et al 1999); they support social processes and community development (Saldivar-Tanaka and Krasny 2004); they provide opportunities to empower residents to assist in rebuilding their environments, their lives, their sense of place and meaning following natural disasters (Chan et al 2015). In general, they foster social-ecological system resilience following crises and disaster (Tidball and Krasny 2010a). According to these benefits and outcomes, community gardens join other urban green practices, such as collectively managed parks and allotments, notably because they promote diverse https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss3/art28/ learning streams, environmental stewardship, and socialecological memory .…”

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Specificities of French community gardens as environmental stewardships

Torres¹,

Nadot²,

Prévot³

2017

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ABSTRACT. Community-based efforts are essential to address urban social-ecological challenges. Here, we focus on French community gardens. Through participant observation and semistructured interviews, this study seeks to provide empirical evidence on: (1) what motivates volunteer gardeners in French community gardens to undertake this activity, (2) what practices take place in the gardens, and (3) which individual and collective processes are associated with gardeners' experiences in the gardens. Through these questions, we aim to understand how these initiatives relate to environmental stewardship. Our results show that environmental, social, and selfmotivations are the drivers behind gardeners' participation in the gardens. It seems that involvement in the gardens provides opportunities to fulfill those needs and/or motives through different interrelated processes between the individual with him/herself, the human collective, and nature such as: contemplating nature and benefiting from sensory experiences, having access to environmental education, experiencing individual and collective organization, renewing social-ecological relationships, and facing local challenges. We note that French community gardens provide arenas for new experiences of nature. In addition, even if gardens' biophysical features and gardening practices allow a series of processes that provide social and ecological benefits and outcomes, these gardens refer to environmental stewardship practices by cultivating relational values. These values provide opportunities for innovative ways of creative conservation, reflecting how care for ourselves extends to care for others, for places, and for nature.

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Stewardship, learning, and memory in disaster resilience

Cited by 130 publications

References 47 publications

Resilience (Republished)

Resilience (Republished)

The role of individuals’ risk representations in risk management - case-study on lahars in Arequipa (Peru)

Specificities of French community gardens as environmental stewardships

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