Top-down assessment of disaster resilience: A conceptual framework using coping and adaptive capacities

Parsons, Melissa; Glavac, Sonya; Hastings, Peter; Marshall, Graham R.; McGregor, James; McNeill, Judith; Morley, Phil; Reeve, Ian; Stayner, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2016.07.005

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“…However, while some detailed quantitative analysis of selected resilience indicators can be found either on the household (Jones and Tanner 2017;Tambo and Wünscher 2017) or regional level (Adger et al 2005;Cutter 2016;Lam et al 2015;Parsons et al 2016), especially in the case of disasters, there are only a handful of community-based resilience studies available (Cutter et al 2014;Twigg 2009). These studies usually look at one or two communities at most and hence do not generate the data required to identify and analyze generalizable insights about interactions between community assets or characteristics.…”

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A typology of community flood resilience

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Flood risk is increasing worldwide and there is a growing need to better understand the co-benefits of investments in disaster resilience. Utilizing a multinational community flood resilience dataset, this paper takes a systems approach to understanding community-level flood resilience. Using a cluster analysis and bivariate correlation methods, we develop a typology of community flood resilience capacity based on community characteristics and five capitals (human, financial, natural, physical, and social). Our results reinforce the importance of context-specific policymaking and give recommendations of four distinct clusters to investigate the relationship between flood resilience and prevailing development conditions. We especially find that communities with higher interactions between their capital capacities tend to have higher flood resilience levels. Additionally, there are indications that stronger interactions between community capacities can help to induce multiple co-benefits when investing in disaster resilience. Our results also have important policy implications on the individual community level. For example, based on our results, we suggest that communities with lower flood resilience capacities and interactions can best build resilience on leveraging their relatively higher human capital capacities to strengthen the financial and social capitals. Negative effects might happen for urban communities when co-benefits of natural and physical capital are not fully integrated. The highest flood resilience capacity is found in communities with a well-balanced household income distribution which is likely a contributing factor to the importance of financial capital for this cluster. Our results emphasize the importance of an integrative approach to management when implementing systematic flood disaster resilience metrics and development measures.

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“…Although the methods employed to identify and collect literature for the review are similar to those used by Parsons et al. (), Cutter (), Sharifi (), and Asadzadeh et al. (), they go beyond the concepts of disaster resilience to encompass a broader set of resources that include a more robust selection of indicators for natural systems, climate change, and economic resilience that is consistent with the concept of sustainable resilience.…”

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“…Although the methods employed to identify and collect literature for the review are similar to those used by Parsons et al (2016), Cutter (2016), Sharifi (2016), and Asadzadeh et al (2017), they go beyond the concepts of disaster resilience to encompass a broader set of resources that include a more robust selection of indicators for natural systems, climate change, and economic resilience that is consistent with the concept of sustainable resilience. Recognizing that the number of indicators identified is too extensive to be very helpful, the results were organized into a classification structure that is related to the sustainable resilience assessment framework (Nelson et al, 2019), and consolidated to help users understand how indicators may be applied within the aforementioned framework.…”

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Selecting Indicators for Assessing Community Sustainable Resilience

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Communities are complex systems subject to a variety of hazards that can result in significant disruption to critical functions. Community resilience assessment is rapidly gaining popularity as a means to help communities better prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruption. Sustainable resilience, a recently developed concept, requires communities to assess system‐wide capability to maintain desired performance levels while simultaneously evaluating impacts to resilience due to changes in hazards and vulnerability over extended periods of time. To enable assessment of community sustainable resilience, we review current literature, consolidate available indicators and metrics, and develop a classification scheme and organizational structure to aid in identification, selection, and application of indicators within a dynamic assessment framework. A nonduplicative set of community sustainable resilience indicators and metrics is provided that can be tailored to a community's needs, thereby enhancing the ability to operationalize the assessment process.

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“…Assessment of disaster resilience using an index is often a key element of natural hazard management and planning [27] Community resilience denotes a community's ability to prepared itself in order to overcome changes and crises [28]. Community resilience is comprised of factors such as leadership, collective efficacy, social cohesion and place attachment.…”

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A Risk Management Assessment of Rural Villages in Abhar County, Iran Using Spatial Analysis and Disaster Readiness Surveys

Pennington‐Gray¹,

Riahi²,

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2017

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Understanding the vulnerability of areas and the likelihood of specific disasters, particularly earthquakes, is one of the most important issues in Iran. One of the major concerns in Iran is the resilience of rural communities. The present study is devoted to spatial analysis of risk in rural areas and the evaluation of preparedness in the rural districts of the city of Abhar. In particular, this study evaluates the resilience to earthquakes. The research was conducted in two parts in which the first part has used the VIKOR Multiple criteria decision making model as well as the employment of this model in the ArcGis. The second part of the study used field studies, in the form of questionnaires, to evaluate the readiness of the local population against the risks of earthquakes. Four indicators, individual, physical, economic abilities and access, were assessed. The population included rural districts, where statistical samples were villagers. Results of the spatial analysis indicated that 15 villages are in the high-risk areas, 24 villages were in the medium-risk areas and all other villages were in low-risk areas. In terms of readiness of the locals, the results indicated a lack of planning with regards to the four mentioned indicators.

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Top-down assessment of disaster resilience: A conceptual framework using coping and adaptive capacities

Cited by 211 publications

References 39 publications

A typology of community flood resilience

A typology of community flood resilience

Selecting Indicators for Assessing Community Sustainable Resilience

A Risk Management Assessment of Rural Villages in Abhar County, Iran Using Spatial Analysis and Disaster Readiness Surveys

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