Community resilience has been addressed across multiple disciplines including
environmental sciences, engineering, sociology, psychology, and economics. Interest in …

The concept of resilience is increasingly used in academic and policy circles. To
operationalize this concept and reduce the ambiguities surrounding it, since the turn of the …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Background: Government, industry and charitable organisations have an increasing focus
on programs intended to support community resilience to disasters. But has consensus been …

Introduction: Recent years have witnessed community disaster resilience becoming one of
the most heavily supported and advocated approach to disaster risk management. However …

Resilience is the ability of a system to react to and recover from disturbances with minimal
effect on its dynamic stability. While resilience has been the focus of research in several …

The objective of this research was to establish a holistic framework for defining and
measuring disaster resilience for a community at various scales. Seven dimensions …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the emergence of resilience into the
contemporary discourse of disaster risk. As a counter position to the current status quo in …

Community resilience is an important concept in disaster prevention policy, as it is
hypothesised to mitigate the impacts of 'shocks' and facilitate adaptation to reduce the …

Over the past few years, there has been a proliferation of studies that focus on enhancing
resilience of cities against a multitude of man-made and natural disasters. There has also …