Towards a Quantifiable Measure of Resilience
By Christophe Béné. 2013
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Summary The objective of this paper is twofold. First it illustrates and discusses some of the challenges related to the measurement of resilience by reviewing some of the most recently published and grey literature on resilience in relation to food security. Second it proposes a new framework that addresses some of the concerns and limitations of resilience measurement identified in that literature. The main postulate of this framework is that the ‘costs of resilience’ (that is, the different ex-ante and ex-post investments, losses, sacrifices, and costs that people have to undertake at individual and collective levels to ‘go through’ a shock or an adverse event) provide an appropriate and independent metric to measure resilience across scales and dimensions. The paper shows how the independent nature of this metrics offers an explanatory power that can be used to infer, in a testable and rigorous manner potential, causalities between the metric and household and/or community characteristics. Empirical and theoretical examples are used throughout the paper to illustrate the arguments.
Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Measuring and assessing resilience: broadening understanding through multiple disciplinary perspectives (2016, unknown): “As a result the ability to compare and synthesize results remains a challenge, however, researchers continue to work toward approaches that will enable the comparison of results and more specifically, improve the accountability of programmes (Bene 2013).”
- Design, Monitoring and Evaluation of Resilience Interventions: Conceptual and Empirical Considerations (2015, background): “Despite progress on the conceptual side, academics, practitioners and donors are still struggling with pragmatic issues - in particular, how to measure, and monitor and evaluate resilience interventions (Vaitla et al. 2012; Béné 2013).”
- Is resilience socially constructed? Empirical evidence from Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam (2016, unknown): “, 2014a) characteristics that make it hard to measure through simple proxies (Berkes and Folke, 1998; Walker et al., 2002; Kallstrom and Ljung, 2005; Béné, 2013).”