Risk, Resilience, and Readiness: Developing an All-Hazards Perspective

摘要: This chapter discusses how readiness contributes to developing community resilience. It does so from the perspective of understanding people interpret risk, make disaster risk reduction (DRR) choices, and implement actions manage their under conditions uncertainty. proposes that development DRR strategies facilitate sustained must accommodate two issues. The first is identify atypical demands challenges need be resilient and/or adapt change as negotiate impact, response, recovery phases experience. second issue derives identifying personal, community, societal factors interact predict whether what extent communities proactively develop adaptive capacity. draws on empirical studies undertaken in Thailand (2004 Indian Ocean tsunami) New Zealand (2011 Christchurch earthquake) illustrate nature Studies earthquake, tsunami, wildfire serve theory supports an all-hazards approach increasing strategies. concludes with a discussion issues incorporated comprehensive at different levels when