Resilience as a concept is multi-faceted with complex dimensions. In a disaster context,
there is lack of consistency in conceptualizing social resilience. This results in ambiguity of …

With climate change increasingly affecting individuals' day-to-day lives, interest is growing in
the personal and household adaptation behaviors that people can engage in. Many of these …

Is resilience always adaptive and functional, or can resilience be maladaptive in contexts
where it masks vulnerability or prevents effective action to address risk? In this paper, we …

The Third Edition of Family Stress Management by Pauline Boss, Chalandra M. Bryant, and
Jay A. Mancini continues its original commitment to recognize both the external and internal …

As a risk amplification station, media coverage affects people's concerns about
environmental hazards and mitigation behaviors. Substantial evidence has revealed that …

Objectives Globally, mitigation measures during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
pandemic have focused on protecting older adults. Earlier disaster studies have shown the …

This article focuses on the involvement and management of spontaneous volunteers (SVs).
It develops a new theory—which we call the “involvement/exclusion” paradox—about a …

The study aims to identify attributes of communities with high social resilience in flood-prone
areas of Myanmar. This study outlines a conceptual indicator-based framework for …

Essential services such as electricity are critical to human well-being and the functioning of
modern society. These services are produced by complex adaptive socio-technical systems …

Flash flooding is the natural hazard provoking the largest number of casualties, so
adequately characterizing vulnerability is key to improve flood risk analysis and …