The Multiple Meanings of ‘Resilience’: An Overview of the Literature

Reid, Richard; Botterill, Linda Courtenay

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“…The concept of resilience is unusually “plastic” [44], “highly ambiguous” [45], vague and malleable [37], and often used as a promiscuous approach, like global commodity chains [46,47] incorporating different meanings in different contexts. This is because of a blending of descriptive (what the case is) and normative aspects (what the case should be) within its conceptualization [37].…”

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“…This is because of a blending of descriptive (what the case is) and normative aspects (what the case should be) within its conceptualization [37]. Although there are scholarly arguments on the positives and negatives of the ambiguity and plasticity of the concept of resilience [34,37,44,45,48], the positives and the negatives of the malleability of the concept can be offset through a ‘division of labor’ of the resilience scientists. Resilience as a descriptive concept, with precise definition and meaning and operationalized quantitatively, can be applied to hard systems in physical, ecological, and climate hard sciences.…”

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“…On the one hand, resilience is conceptualized as an inherent or antecedent condition or state or ‘outcome’ [10,42,45,51]. Inherent resilience reflects an ontological definition of resilience which focuses on the system’s ‘being’ [52,53], i.e., its ability to function well under normal circumstances in non-crisis periods and its ability to reinstate the pre-crisis stability (i.e., bounce back) if any catastrophe strikes it.…”

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Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections

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2016

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In the last few decades, disaster risk reduction programs and climate initiatives across the globe have focused largely on the intimate connections between vulnerability, recovery, adaptation, and coping mechanisms. Recent focus, however, is increasingly paid to community resilience. Community, placed at the intersection between the household and national levels of social organization, is crucial in addressing economic, social, or environmental disturbances disrupting human security. Resilience measures a community’s capability of bouncing back—restoring the original pre-disaster state, as well as bouncing forward—the capacity to cope with emerging post-disaster situations and changes. Both the ‘bouncing back’ and ‘moving forward’ properties of a community are shaped and reshaped by internal and external shocks such as climate threats, the community’s resilience dimensions, and the intensity of economic, social, and other community capitals. This article reviews (1) the concept of resilience in relation to climate change and vulnerability; and (2) emerging perspectives on community-level impacts of climate change, resilience dimensions, and community capitals. It argues that overall resilience of a place-based community is located at the intersection of the community’s resilience dimensions, community capitals, and the level of climate disruptions.

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2016

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“…There is no dearth of attempts to define and explain the idea (Hale and Heijer, 2006;Reid and Botterill, 2013). They have produced such a myriad of incompatible interpretations as to make one despair of the possibility of understanding a concept that one may say has come of age.…”

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Building Resilient Organizations for Effective Service Delivery in Developing Countries: The Experience of Ghana Water Company Limited

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Ohemeng

2015

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Public organizations in developing countries can only be effective if they are able to develop and implement public policies effectively and efficiently. However, what continues to bother scholars is how to ensure that such bureaucratic organizations are also accountable and democratic. Some have argued that the solution lies with the building of merit-based organizations. Nevertheless, we believe that a critical factor in building efficient organizations in developing countries is the designing and building of resilient organizations. In this article, we provide a theoretical framework for building resilient organizations in developing countries and use it to examine water sector reforms in Ghana.

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“…Despite the growth in resilience research there is little consensus as to its definition and meaning. There are multiple, and contested, definitions present in the literature, reflecting the various foci and disciplines adopted by resilience researchers (Reid & Botterill, 2013;Shaikh & Kauppi, 2010). Despite this lack of clarity, a review of the literature indicates that the term resilience places emphasis on adaptation, growth and positive outcomes in the face of adversity (McFadden, Campbell, & Taylor, 2015;Reid & Botterill, 2013;Shaikh & Kauppi, 2010).…”

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Youth counsellors' experiences of telephone counselling: a qualitative exploration

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Telephone counselling is a well established medium of non-face-to-face mental health service delivery. Research to date has focussed on the delivery and effectiveness of therapy over the telephone. However, there has been little exploration of counsellor's experience of this work. The limited body of research about telephone counsellors' experiences portrays this work as challenging, exhausting and possibility traumatic for counsellors to perform. This is of significance considering the impact these factors can have on counsellors' subjective wellbeing, job satisfaction and turnover intentions.Research suggests that work related factors play a greater part than individual characteristics in shaping the experiences of telephone counsellors. However, there is limited understanding of the various types of work related factors that may shape these experiences.To address this gap in the extant literature this thesis explores youth counsellors' experiences of telephone counselling, and the range of work related factors that foster them. It examines telephone counsellors' general experiences of this work and those in relation to the work related factors of work environment, interpersonal relationships and specific aspects of the work. Unlike previous research, particular attention is paid to the spatial aspects of this work, such as the physical workplace environment and the mental space.To gain an in-depth understanding of telephone counsellors' experiences this research employed an instrumental case study approach and focused on youth counsellors in one telephone counselling service in New Zealand. Ten counsellors with 18 months to 9 years telephone counselling experience participated in this study, with the majority concurrently studying a human service related course at university. A multi-method design was adopted, including observations, in-depth interviews and reflective journals. To explore counsellors' experiences and how they are influenced by work related factors, both social constructionist and organisational theoretical lenses were adopted.The findings in this thesis indicate that overall counsellors enjoyed the work of telephone counselling despite its challenges. They experienced discrete aspects of their work as challenging, yet enjoyed their interactions with callers and the quality of relationships they had with colleagues and supervisors. Whilst counsellors experienced elements of the physical environment to be distracting and uncomfortable, they were able to exert some influence over the impact of these features by locating themselves in a preferred 3 counselling booth. Counsellors were found to enter into a distinct mental place when joining with their callers. Within this mental place they experienced a higher degree of proximity in counselling calls and greater distance in testing calls. The counsellors were able to manage the degree of closeness within their calls by their physical movement of leaning into counselling calls and leaning back from testing calls.This thesis makes a contribu...

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The Multiple Meanings of ‘Resilience’: An Overview of the Literature

Cited by 81 publications

References 34 publications

Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections

Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections

Building Resilient Organizations for Effective Service Delivery in Developing Countries: The Experience of Ghana Water Company Limited

Youth counsellors' experiences of telephone counselling: a qualitative exploration

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