Communities that are more disaster resilient often experience less impact from the disaster and reduced recovery periods afterwards. This study develops a methodology for constructing a set of indicators measuring Community Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) in terms of human, social, economic, ...
Section 5 compares the community resilience index to previously established vulnerability metrics. Section 6 discusses practical implications and section 7 concludes with some final remarks. 2. Measuring community disaster resilience 2.1. Introducing the resilience concept Resilience, generally referring to ...
Community disaster resilience:A qualitative study on Iranian concepts and indicators. Ostadtaghizadeh A,Ardalan A,Paton D,et al. Natural Hazards . 2016Ostadtaghizadeh A, Ardalan A, Paton D, et al. Community disaster resilience:A qualitative study on Iranian concepts and indicators[J]. Natural ...
This study aims to develop a Flood Disaster Resilience Index (FDRI), as an attempt to measure the level of communities' resilience in mega coastal cities. The FDRI is developed on five resilience-based capitals: Governance, Economic, Natural, Physical and Social. Alexandria in Egypt and Jakarta...
Recent years have witnessed community disaster resilience becoming one of the most heavily supported and advocated approach to disaster risk management. However, its application has been influenced by the lack of assessment tools. This study reviews studies conducted using the resilience concept and exami...
This book establishes a new, holistic framework for disaster recovery and mitigation, providing a multidisciplinary perspective on the field of risk management strategies and societal and communal resilience. Going beyond narrow approaches that are all too prevalent in the field, this work builds on an...
Several studies have highlighted the importance of community resilience in disaster management. The paper focuses on Saudi Arabia and proposes a 'community resilience to disaster' framework. The dimensions of the framework have been developed using the consensus-based Delphi technique. A weighting system...
Community resilience emerges from four primary sets of adaptive capacities—Economic Development, Social Capital, Information and Communication, and Community Competence—that together provide a strategy for disaster readiness. To build collective resilience, communities must reduce risk and resource inequities...
Designing Disaster Resilience and Public Policy: Comparative Perspectives The concept of resilience is used in multiple scientific contexts, being understood according to several different perspectives. Essentially, resilience id... Comfort,Louise,K. - 《Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis》 被引量: 8...
An evaluation of the Community Disaster Resilience Scorecard Toolkit by small, high-risk communities on the Sunshine CoastCommunity resilienceDisaster resilienceParticipatory methodsShared responsibilityThere is demand for an assessment tool that can assist a community to prepare, respond and recover from ...