(A35) Building National and Community Resilience
Each year a report is prepared for the World Economic Forum on global risks. It outlines the issues most likely to impact on society, and makes recommendations on actions required. The 2010 report concludes that global risks are becoming more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous; and it commen...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s1049023x11000483 2023-05-15T16:09:39+02:00 (A35) Building National and Community Resilience Mcaslan, A. 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x11000483 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S1049023X11000483 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Prehospital and Disaster Medicine volume 26, issue S1, page s10-s11 ISSN 1049-023X 1945-1938 Emergency Nursing Emergency Medicine journal-article 2011 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x11000483 2022-04-07T08:01:04Z Each year a report is prepared for the World Economic Forum on global risks. It outlines the issues most likely to impact on society, and makes recommendations on actions required. The 2010 report concludes that global risks are becoming more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous; and it comments on the increased number of high-impact, hard to predict ‘black swan’ events over the past decade. Indeed, recent disasters such as the Haiti earthquake which killed over 250,000 people, the eruption of Mount Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, the rapid onset of the 2008/09 global financial crisis, and terrorist attacks around the world have all contributed to a heightened awareness of personal risk and vulnerability. In less than a decade the term resilience has evolved from the disciplines of materials science and environmental studies to become a concept used enthusiastically by policy makers, practitioners and academics. The concept is attractive as it suggests an ability of something or someone to cope in the face of adversity – to recover and return to normality after confronting an abnormal, alarming and often unexpected threat. It is used alongside security to understand how governments, local authorities, the emergency services and health agencies can best address the threats from natural disasters, health pandemics, malicious attacks on a country's critical infrastructure, and other major disruptive events. The paper discusses the meaning and utility of the concept of resilience. It traces the origins of the term through to its current use in addressing contemporary threats facing individuals, communities, organisations and nations. It identifies and describes a number of characteristics which are common to the concept of resilience in its many contexts and manifestations. In conclusion, the paper supports a review of the language and thinking of emergency and disaster management, and promotes the emerging concept of disaster resilience. Article in Journal/Newspaper Eyjafjallajökull Iceland Cambridge University Press (via Crossref) Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 26 S1 s10 s11 |
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Each year a report is prepared for the World Economic Forum on global risks. It outlines the issues most likely to impact on society, and makes recommendations on actions required. The 2010 report concludes that global risks are becoming more volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous; and it comments on the increased number of high-impact, hard to predict ‘black swan’ events over the past decade. Indeed, recent disasters such as the Haiti earthquake which killed over 250,000 people, the eruption of Mount Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland, the rapid onset of the 2008/09 global financial crisis, and terrorist attacks around the world have all contributed to a heightened awareness of personal risk and vulnerability. In less than a decade the term resilience has evolved from the disciplines of materials science and environmental studies to become a concept used enthusiastically by policy makers, practitioners and academics. The concept is attractive as it suggests an ability of something or someone to cope in the face of adversity – to recover and return to normality after confronting an abnormal, alarming and often unexpected threat. It is used alongside security to understand how governments, local authorities, the emergency services and health agencies can best address the threats from natural disasters, health pandemics, malicious attacks on a country's critical infrastructure, and other major disruptive events. The paper discusses the meaning and utility of the concept of resilience. It traces the origins of the term through to its current use in addressing contemporary threats facing individuals, communities, organisations and nations. It identifies and describes a number of characteristics which are common to the concept of resilience in its many contexts and manifestations. In conclusion, the paper supports a review of the language and thinking of emergency and disaster management, and promotes the emerging concept of disaster resilience. |
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