Considering the rapid urbanization trends in many parts of the world and the increasing
consequences of climate change, more and more cities are at risk of natural disasters and …

Fostering resilience in the face of environmental, socioeconomic, and political uncertainty
and risk has captured the attention of academics and decision makers across disciplines …

Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

This book is the first authored overview of resilience in tourism and its relationship to the
broader resilience literature. The volume takes a multi-scaled approach to examine …

Record-breaking fire seasons are becoming increasingly common worldwide, and large
wildfires are having extraordinary impacts on people and property, despite years of …

As a concept and disciplinary practice, resilience analysis has evolved rapidly within the
twenty-first century. This is driven in large part by the growing complexity in everyday …

This paper examines the development over historical time of the meaning and uses of the
term resilience. The objective is to deepen our understanding of how the term came to be …

Integrating the social and natural sciences to effectively tackle the intertwined challenges
represented by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been advocated for years …

Over the last decade, a growing body of literature has emerged which is concerned with the
question of what form a promising concept of social resilience might take. In this article we …

Efforts to reduce suffering have habitually focused on control and repair of individual bodies.
The social origins of suffering and distress, including poverty and discrimination, even if …