Resilience 07
Resilience 07 : "Resilience as a concept was initially used in ecology to describe the ability of ecosystems to resist and recover from external negative impacts (Blaikie and Brookfield, 1985). The term is increasingly used in the disaster management sphere and reflects a trend towards a holistic and proactive approach that has the community, and its ability to resist and recover as its focus. The term resilience brings together the components of the disaster cycle - response, recovery, mitigation and preparedness, utilizing a range of structural and non-structural approaches". (O'Brien and Read 2005, 354)
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