Perspectives on Resilience to Disasters across Sectors and Cultures
By B. Walker, Frances Westley. 2011
120 citations recorded by the source corpus.
We present some insights on the use and interpretation of resilience ideas that arose in a conference on "Society's Resilience in Withstanding Disaster." Three points in particular have relevance for those interested in resilience in social-ecological systems: (1) Time as a threshold vs. avoiding quick fixes; (2) Trading risks: specified vs. general resilience; (3) Response origination: building local general resilience, and general resilience in central agencies. In the latter the need is to allow improvisation, and failure, during times of crisis.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science
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In Economics and Econometrics
- Carl Folke
- Stephen Polasky
- Anastasios Xepapadeas
- K. Mäler
- A. Crépin
- Stephen R. Carpenter
- Reinette Biggs
- Frances Westley
In Management Science and Operations Research
- Carl Folke
- P. Olsson
- M. Moore
- Reinette Biggs
- Aart de Zeeuw
- Kyle C. Meng
- Eric F. Lambin
- John Thompson
In Sociology and Political Science
- Carl Folke
- Stephen R. Carpenter
- Eric F. Lambin
- B. Walker
- K. Mäler
- M. Moore
- Kyle C. Meng
- Marten Scheffer
Citations in the corpus
- Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation (2011, background): “Top-down only responses to crisis often miss the opportunity for learning and innovation because of the emphasis on speed, and on avoiding blame (Walker and Westley 2011).”
- General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events (2012, background): “After a disaster occurs, rapid response is crucial but it is also important to rebuild resilience, as detailed in a recent meeting of disaster experts [47].”
- The concept of the Anthropocene as a game-changer: a new context for social innovation and transformations to sustainability (2017, background): “…understand the role of policy in facilitating and generating social innovation (Moore et al. 2012a, Tjornbo and Westley 2012), networks (Moore and Westley 2011) and agency (Dorado 2005, Westley et al. 2013) in enabling the movement of innovations across scales, social finance (Antadze and…”