Measurement and evidence: whose resilience for whom?
This working paper series explores resilience as a concept with growing attention in academic and policy discourses as well as within circles of practitioners (e.g. Manyena, 2006; Alexander, 2013; Weichselgartner and Kelman, 2015). This series is intended for international organizations, Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), funding agencies and private firms.
As resilience has become one of the main buzzwords in the fields of development, disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation, there is growing demand for evidence and measurement, stimulating a flurry of approaches, methods and tools designed by researchers as well as international organizations and NGOs, to capture the multiple dimensions of resilience on a variety of scales. Accordingly, international, governmental and non-governmental institutions have progressively felt the need for measuring resilience in order to prioritise policies and actions, monitor progress, and foster accountability.
This paper provides a non-exhaustive but hopefully representative overview of these approaches, methods and tools, framed within the different paradigms that have guided disaster studies and DRR over the past century.
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