Kelman, I;
Gaillard, JC;
Lewis, J;
Mercer, J;
(2016)
Learning from the history of disaster vulnerability and resilience research and practice for climate change.
Natural Hazards
, 82
pp. 129-143.
10.1007/s11069-016-2294-0.
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Abstract
Humanity has long sought to explain and understand why environmental processes and phenomena contribute to and interfere with development processes, frequently through the terms and concepts of ‘vulnerability’ and ‘resilience’. Many proven ideas and approaches from development and disaster risk reduction literature are not fully considered by contemporary climate change work. This chapter describes the importance of older vulnerability and resilience research for contemporary investigations involving climate change, suggesting ways forward without disciplinary blinkers. Vulnerability and resilience as processes are explored alongside critiques of the post-disaster ‘return to normal’ paradigm. The importance of learning from already existing literature and experience is demonstrated for ensuring that complete vulnerability and resilience processes are accounted for by placing climate change within other contemporary development concerns.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Learning from the history of disaster vulnerability and resilience research and practice for climate change |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11069-016-2294-0 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2294-0 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
| Keywords: | Climate change, Disasters, Development, History, Resilience, Vulnerability |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Inst for Risk and Disaster Reduction |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1477387 |
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