Resilience

Community resilience

• A failure of resilience: Estimating response of New York City’s public health ecosystem to sudden disaster (Elsevier, June 2007)]

The best references for a comprehensive overview of vulnerability and resilience are:

Acosta, V.G. 2005. “El riesgo como construcción social y la construcción social de riesgos”. Desacatos. Revista de Antropología Social, septiembre-diciembre, vol. 19, pp. 11-24.

Boyce, J.K. 2000. “Let them eat risk? Wealth, rights and disaster vulnerability”. Disasters, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 254-261.

Enarson, E. and B.H. Morrow (eds.). 1998. The Gendered Terrain of Disaster: Through Women’s Eyes. Greenwood Publications, Connecticut, USA.

Etkin, D. 1999. “Risk Transference and Related Trends: Driving Forces Towards More Mega-Disasters”. Environmental Hazards, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 69-75.

Glantz, M.H. 1994. “Creeping Environmental Problems”. The World & I, June, pp. 218-225.

Hewitt, K. and I. Burton. (1971). The Hazardousness of a Place: A Regional Ecology of Damaging Events. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario.

Hewitt, K. (ed.). 1983. Interpretations of Calamity from the Viewpoint of Human Ecology, Allen & Unwin, London, UK.

Hufschmidt, G., M. Crozier, and T. Glade. 2005. “Evolution of natural risk: research framework and perspectives”. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, vol. 5, pp. 375-387.

Lewis, J. 1999. Development in Disaster-prone Places: Studies of Vulnerability. Intermediate Technology Publications, London, UK.

Mileti, D. and 136 contributing authors. 1999. Disasters by Design: A Reassessment of Natural Hazards in the United States, Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC.

Morrow, B.H. 1999. “Identifying and Mapping Community Vulnerability”. Disasters, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 1-18.

O’Keefe, P., K. Westgate, and B. Wisner. 1976. “Taking the naturalness out of natural disasters.” Nature, vol. 260, pp. 566-567.

Oliver-Smith, T. 1986. The Martyred City: Death and Rebirth in the Andes. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.

Pulwarty, R.S. and W.E. Riebsame. 1997. “The Political Ecology of Vulnerability to Hurricane-Related Hazards”. Chapter 9, pp. 185-214 in Hurricanes: Climate and Socioeconomic Impacts, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg New York.

UNESCO debate through their “Wise Coastal Practices for Sustainable Human Development Forum” http://www.csiwisepractices.org/?read=485 (and scroll down for responses)

Weichselgartner, J. 2001. “Disaster Mitigation: The Concept of Vulnerability Revisited”. Disaster Prevention and Management, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 85-94.

White, G.F. See http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/gfw/vita.html#selected_publications

Wisner, B., P. Blaikie., T. Cannon, and I. Davis. 2004. At Risk: Natural Hazards, People’s Vulnerability and Disasters, 2nd ed. Routledge, London, UK.