Structure and Process in the Study of Disaster Resilience

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While the concept of disaster resilience has become increasingly prominent in disaster loss-reduction research and practice, the concept remains undertheorized. This paper, which employs insights from a variety of social science fields, expands upon the 4-R/TOSE framework developed by investigators from the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, focusing on structural factors and on processes, activities and practices that promote resilience. Diversity, decentralization, network forms of organization, and social capital constitute structural contributors to resilience. Reduction of production pressures, collective sensemaking and distributed cognition, and improvisation, are processes-related factors that enhance resilience.

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