3. Caveat emptor: this is a story
of dead white males, not of
women or ethnic diversity.
Much as I would like to,
I can't rewrite history.
4. RESILIENCE: the ability
to overcome the impacts
of large, negative events
[by a combination of
resistance and adaptation].
Not the only definition,
not exclusive,
not comprehensive,
and not incontestable.
5. Hypothesis: by
examining the
history of the
resilience concept,
we can understand
better its
meanings in the
context of
contemporary
science.
A recent
publication listed
28 definitions
of resilience.
6. "Originally developed as an ecological
concept, resilience is being applied to
coupled human-environment systems."
(Berkes 2007, p. 286)
"The study of resilience traces
its roots back a scant 50 years."
(Goldstein and Brooks 2006, p. 3)
"The concept of resilience was originally
developed in the field of ecology."
(Djalate et al. 2011, p. 3)
12. St Jerome
347-420
St John Chrysostom
347-407
Sagitta in lapidem numquam figitur,
interdum resiliens percutit dirigentem.
"An arrow never lodges in a stone:
often it recoils upon its sender."
14. Henry VIII
1491-1547
Anne Boleyn
1485-1536
"if the Quene wold herafter resile and goo back"
Stephen Gardiner (1483-1555), writing
at Woodstock on 1 September 1529
to Thomas Wolsey (1473-1530).
31. "But there is another property,
termed resilience, that is a measure
of the persistence of systems and
of their ability to absorb change
and disturbance and still maintain
the same relationships between
populations or state variables."
(Holling 1973, p.14)
32. • analysis of the stability
of ecological assemblages
• ideal for island ecology and
other well-defined systems
• in line with GST resilience
is an equilibrium tendency
• promotes a narrow view
of the resilience concept
• Holling's approach has been
widely used uncritically.
Holling's use of the resilience concept
33. "Resilience is a systems concept*, and
the social-ecological system, as an
integrated and interdependent unit,
may itself be considered a complex
adaptive system."
(Berkes and Ross 2013, p. 14)
*not necessarily!
34. Causes of disaster
natural geophysical,
technological, social
History
single and
cumulative
impact
of past
disasters
Human
cultures
constraints
and
opportunities
IMPACTS
Adaptation
to risk
RESILIENCE
42. • an objective, a process or a strategy?
• a paradigm, diverse paradigms?
• 'bounce-back' or 'bounce-forward'?
• focuses on the community scale
• can reconcile dynamic & static elements.
Resilience
43. RESILIENCE:
as a material has brittle
strength and ductility:
society must have an optimum
combination of resistance to
hazard impacts and ability
to adapt to them.
46. INSTRUMENTS OF
DISSEMINATION
• mass media
• targeted campaign
• social networks
• internet
Augmentation
MASS
EDUCATION
PROGRAMME
HUMAN
CAPITAL
HABIT
CULTURE
The creation of a culture of civil protection