This paper examines two concepts, social vulnerability and social resilience, often used to
describe people and their relationship to a disaster. Social vulnerability is the exposure to …

The objective of this paper is to better understand the various individual and household
factors that influence resilience, that is, people⬢ s ability to respond adequately to shocks …

To understand how Vietnamese society responds to the challenge of environmental change,
it is important to develop a conceptual framework for examining the process of impact …

The author distinguishes resilience from concepts of positive psychology and competence
by showing that there is heterogeneity in how humans respond to environmental hazards …

This paper discusses the use of risk and resilience theory to understand how individuals and
communities respond to natural disasters that present ongoing developmental challenges to …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

Over the last decade, a growing body of literature has emerged which is concerned with the
question of what form a promising concept of social resilience might take. In this article we …

Social scientists, and scholars in related interdisciplinary fields, have critiqued resilience
thinking's oversimplification of social dimensions of coupled social-ecological systems …

The paper presents contributions to the widespread resilience paradigm from a social
science perspective. Certain aspects of social systems, especially their symbolic dimension …

The debate on disaster resilience has continued to grow, albeit at a slow pace, since the
2005 World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan. One of the most …