Journal article
Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners' frames and practices
P Aldunce, R Beilin, M Howden, J Handmer
Global Environmental Change | Published : 2015
Abstract
There is a growing use of resilience ideas within the disaster risk management literature and policy domain. However, few empirical studies have focused on how resilience ideas are conceptualized by practitioners, as they implement them in practice. Using Hajer's 'social-interactive discourse theory' this research contributes to the understanding of how practitioners frame, construct and make sense of resilience ideas in the context of changes in institutional arrangements for disaster risk management that explicitly include the resilience approach and climate change considerations. The case study involved the roll out of the Natural Disaster Resilience Program in Queensland, Australia, and ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank "Becas Bicentenario" from the Government of Chile, the University of Chile, the University of Melbourne and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia, for funding the present research. This publication also received the support of and is a contribution to the Center of Resilience and Climate Research (CR)<SUP>2</SUP>, FONDAP #1511009. We thank the Department of Community Safety, Queensland and the case study respondents, for their generosity and willingness to participate. This publication is based on PhD thesis study "Framing resilience: practitioners' views of its meaning and usefulness in disaster risk management practice".