气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): The geographies of community disaster resilience

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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.08.005
	The geographies of community disaster resilience
	Cutter S.L.; Ash K.D.; Emrich C.T.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	29
英文摘要	There is increasing policy and research interest in disaster resilience, yet the extant literature is still mired in definitional debates, epistemological orientations of researchers, and differences in basic approaches to measurement. As a consequence, there is little integration across domains and disciplines on community resilience assessment, its driving forces, and geographic variability. Using US counties as the study unit, this paper creates an empirically-based resilience metric called the Baseline Resilience Indicators for Communities (BRIC) that is both conceptually and theoretically sound, yet, easy enough to compute for use in a policy context. A common set of variables were used to measure the inherent resilience of counties in the United States according to six different domains or capitals as identified in the extant literature - social, economic, housing and infrastructure, institutional, community, and environmental. Data were from public and freely accessible data sources. Counties in the US Midwest and Great Plains states have the most inherent resilience, while counties in the west, along the US-Mexico border, and along the Appalachian ridge in the east contain the least resilience. Further, it was found that inherent resilience is not the opposite of social vulnerability, but a distinctly different construct both conceptually and empirically. While understanding the overall variability in resilience, the BRIC is easily deconstructed to its component parts to provide guidance to policy makers on where investments in intervention strategies may make a difference in the improvement of scores. Such evidence-based research has an opportunity to influence public policy focused on disaster risk. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	BRIC; Indicators; Resilience; SoVI; US
学科领域	data acquisition; disaster management; geographical variation; policy making; resilience; Appalachians; Great Plains; Mexico [North America]
语种	英语
scopus关键词	data acquisition; disaster management; geographical variation; policy making; resilience; Appalachians; Great Plains; Mexico [North America]
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117711
作者单位	University of South Carolina, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cutter S.L.,Ash K.D.,Emrich C.T.. The geographies of community disaster resilience[J],2014,29.
APA	Cutter S.L.,Ash K.D.,&Emrich C.T..(2014).The geographies of community disaster resilience.Global Environmental Change,29.
MLA	Cutter S.L.,et al."The geographies of community disaster resilience".Global Environmental Change 29(2014).