Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes

Béné, Christophe; Godfrey Wood, Rachel; Newsham, Andrew; Davies, Mark

doi:10.1111/j.2040-0209.2012.00405.x

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Resilience: New Utopia or New Tyranny? Reflection about the Potentials and Limits of the Concept of Resilience in Relation to Vulnerability Reduction Programmes

Published in IDS Working Papers • Sep 1, 2012

Authors:

Christophe Béné

Rachel Godfrey Wood

Andrew Newsham

Abstract

Summary Resilience is becoming influential in development and vulnerability reduction sectors such as social protection, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. Policy makers, donors and international development agencies are now increasingly referring to the term. In that context, th...

Subject

Disaster risk reduction

Vulnerability (computing)

Resilience (materials science)

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