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Definitions of Disaster Resilience: UNISDR, 2005
Definitions of Disaster Resilience: UNISDR, 2005
In practice, DFID’s framework (DFID, 2011a, 6-7; diagram below) depicts the core
elements of disaster resilience as follows:
Disaster resilience has been described as both an outcome and a process (Manyena, 2006,
436-439). Practices focused on outcome have tended to adopt top-down reactive approaches
which can favour the status quo and take attention away from inequalities resulting from
insecurity and disaster (Manyena, 2006, 438). As a process, building disaster resilience involves
supporting the capacity of individuals, communities and states to adapt through assets and
resources relevant to their context (Manyena, 2006, 439). For some, this implies enhancing
peoples’ rights and addressing socio-economic, gender and environmental inequalities that
exacerbate vulnerability (Andharia et al., 2010, 11; Oxfam, 2013).