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Community resilience is the sustained ability of a community to use available resources (energy, communication, transportation, food, etc.) to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations (e.g. economic collapse to global catastrophic risks). [1] This allows for the adaptation and growth of a community after disaster strikes. [2]
Disaster risk reduction (DRR) is defined by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) as those actions which aim to "prevent new and reducing existing disaster risk and managing residual risk, all of which contribute to strengthening resilience and therefore to the achievement of sustainable development".
The emergence of the human security discourse was the product of a convergence of factors at the end of the Cold War.These challenged the dominance of the neorealist paradigm's focus on states, "mutually assured destruction" and military security and briefly enabled a broader concept of security to emerge.
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In 1992 Robert Chambers and Gordon Conway [8] proposed the following composite definition of a sustainable rural livelihood, which is applied most commonly at the household level: "A livelihood comprises the capabilities, assets (stores, resources, claims and access) and activities required for a means of living: a livelihood is sustainable ...
Resilience is a multi-facet property, covering four dimensions: technical, organization, social and economic. [6] Therefore, using one metric may not be representative to describe and quantify resilience. In engineering, resilience is characterized by four Rs: robustness, redundancy, resourcefulness, and rapidity.
Supply chain resilience, the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change; Urban resilience, the adaptive capacities of complex urban systems to manage change, order and disorder over time; Community resilience, the adaptive capacities of communities and societies to manage change and adversities over time
"Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better." [1] The concept has now been applied to ecosystems in a rigorous way. [17] In their work, the authors review the concept of ecosystem resilience in its relation to ecosystem integrity from an information theory approach.