Resilience

SCALING RETROSPECTIVE RESILIENCE OF REAL GRASSLAND

by Giovanni Zurlini

Indicating retrospective resilience of multi-scale patterns of real habitats in a landscape

by Giovanni Zurlini

Encyclopedia SES

by Giovanni Zurlini

Encyclopedia_Zaccarelli.et.al.2008

by Giovanni Zurlini

Encyclopedia_Zaccarelli.et.al.2008

by Giovanni Zurlini

Briefing: community resilience to extreme weather

by Chris Goodier

Making Communities Resilient To Crisis: Exploring the Tensions & Dilemmas

by Liza Griffin

Ingeniería de la resiliencia: nueva tendencia en la gestión de la seguridad laboral

by Ricardo Montero

‘Hope’ for children and youth in a challenging world?

by Penny Moore

A Therapeutic Tool for Boosting Mood: The Broad-Minded Affective Coping Procedure (BMAC)

by Judith Johnson

PROCESOS DE RESILIENCIA FAMILIAR ANTE LA ADVERSIDAD SOCIAL: RELACIÓN, ORGANIZACIÓN Y JUEGO

by María Angélica Kotliarenco

María Angélica Kotliarenco Azerman; María Magdalena Muñoz Quinteros; Esteban Gómez Muzzio. 2012 ¨(EN PRENSA) 25 p.

Se reportan hallazgos sobre resiliencia familiar, temática poco estudiada hasta ahora, en familias socialmente... more Se reportan hallazgos sobre resiliencia familiar, temática poco estudiada hasta ahora, en familias socialmente vulnerables que suelen vivir experiencias de estrés tóxico. Se usó la Escala de Evaluación Familiar de Carolina del Norte (NCFAS-G); considerando como adversidad socioeconómica tener problemas moderado-graves en las dimensiones “Entorno” y/o “Autonomía”. Tras aplicar este criterio a 74 familias con niños entre 2 y 36 meses de edad de un programa de intervención comunitaria, se identificó 31 casos en adversidad social. Resiliencia familiar se definió como el funcionamiento adecuado/fortalecido en el ítem “Interacción Familiar” de la escala. Se observó resiliencia en 51,6% de las familias, quienes a pesar de vivir bajo adversidad logran un funcionamiento adecuado y positivo. Luego, se comparó ambos grupos (resiliente y no resiliente), identificando como principal variable la “recreación y juego familiar”, que permitió predecir correctamente el 89% de los casos y que aumenta en 20 veces la probabilidad de resiliencia. Concordante con otros autores, concluimos que la resiliencia es un fenómeno habitual; y que en familias con niños en infancia temprana, la calidad de las relaciones, la organización de las rutinas, y la incorporación de tiempo y espacios lúdicos de calidad son procesos fundamentales para el logro de resiliencia familiar.

RESILIENCIA Y APEGO

by María Angélica Kotliarenco

María Angélica Kotliarenco A.; Irma Cáceres O. Santiago, CEANIM, 2011. 9 p.

Children and young people who are refugees, internally displaced persons and victims and perpetrators of war, terrorism and mass violence.

by John Drury

Drury, J., & Williams, R. (in press). Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Purpose of review
This paper draws upon papers published since 2009 to identify research evidence about the... more Purpose of review
This paper draws upon papers published since 2009 to identify research evidence about the psychosocial aspects of children and young people’s responses to their exposure to war, collective violence and terrorism.
Recent findings
Recent research describes children’s distress and the disorders they may develop consequent on their direct and indirect exposure to war. This paper covers general responses as well as those that affect refugees, displaced children, and child soldiers. Dose of exposure is the main predictor of their degree of distress. Often, loss of parental support predicts distress or disorder. Research on children who are refugees and internally displaced persons has found that they cope better with the distressing events surrounding their flight if their parents accompany them. Studies of child soldiers show that they suffer from guilt as well as experiencing many violent distressing events. Research has identified the factors that contribute to their resilience, which include their acceptance by the communities to which they return. There are personal and social sources of resilience, including emotion regulation, parenting, and social support, for children who are exposed to war.
Summary
Much of the recent research confirms earlier findings, which demonstrate that their exposure to war and collective violence leads to distress for many children and/or mental disorders for a smaller but substantial minority of them. The literature shows interest in identifying and measuring protective factors. The emphasis in the papers we reviewed on social as well as personal factors that confer psychosocial resilience reflects the broad interest in the two canons of literature on children’s development and disasters. The findings point powerfully to people’s needs for holistic and community-level interventions.
Keywords
War, psychosocial response, posttraumatic stress, violence, resilience

Resilience in Practice

by Susan Upton

Co-authored with Maggie Ibrahim

Practical Action has produced a briefing paper called ‘Resilience in Practice’, which explains just how resilience is... more Practical Action has produced a briefing paper called ‘Resilience in Practice’, which explains just how resilience is being built into projects. The paper is made up of six case studies of projects in Peru, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sudan and Kenya that illustrate Practical Action’s work in building resilience into its programmes. They provide an evidence base for how Practical Action is turning resilience into practice and for including processes and resources that are essential for supporting learning, adaptation and experimentation.

The case studies reinforce the need for organisations to be proactive in reaching out to build partnerships and alliances with people and organisations operating outside of their specialist intervention areas. This means they also require an investment and challenge traditional way of working.

The briefing paper highlights that there are still a range of challenges that need to be overcome and that there are areas that need further research. The challenges include a lack of relevant climate data, appropriate tools and incentives in organisations to support integration of sectors, a lack of scenario planning methods and clear indicators of resilience on which to base planning, monitoring and evaluations.

Power and Conflict in Adaptive Management: Analyzing the Discourse of Riparian Management on Public Lands

by Jennifer Arnold

Adaptive collaborative management emphasizes stakeholder engagement as a crucial component of resilient... more Adaptive collaborative management emphasizes stakeholder engagement as a crucial component of resilient social-ecological systems. Collaboration among diverse stakeholders is expected to enhance learning, build social legitimacy for decision making, and establish relationships that support learning and adaptation in the long term. However, simply bringing together diverse stakeholders does not guarantee productive engagement. Using critical discourse analysis, we examined how diverse stakeholders negotiated knowledge and power in a workshop designed to inform adaptive management of riparian livestock grazing on a National Forest in the southwestern USA. Publicly recognized as a successful component of a larger collaborative effort, we found that the workshop effectively brought together diverse participants, yet still restricted dialogue in important ways. Notably, workshop facilitators took on the additional roles of riparian experts and instructors. As they guided workshop participants toward a consensus view of riparian conditions and management recommendations, they used their status as riparian experts to emphasize commonalities with stakeholders supportive of riparian grazing and accentuate differences with stakeholders skeptical of riparian grazing, including some Forest Service staff with power to influence management decisions. Ultimately, the management plan published one year later did not fully adopt the consensus view from the workshop, but rather included and acknowledged a broader diversity of stakeholder perspectives. Our findings suggest that leaders and facilitators of adaptive collaborative management can more effectively manage for productive stakeholder engagement and, thus, socialecological
resilience if they are more tentative in their convictions, more critical of the role of expert knowledge, and more
attentive to the knowledge, interests, and power of diverse stakeholders.

New Directions in Research with Immigrant Families and Their Children

by Avary Carhill-Poza

Psychological Disaster Myths in the Perception and Management of Mass Emergencies

by John Drury

John Drury, David Novelli, Clifford Stott
In press, Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Disaster myths are said to be widespread and consequential. However, there has been little research on whether those... more Disaster myths are said to be widespread and consequential. However, there has been little research on whether those involved in public safety and emergency response believe them. A survey examined how far police officers, civilian safety professionals, sports event stewards and comparison samples from the public believe the myths ‘mass panic’, ‘civil disorder’ and helplessness. Respondents endorsed the first two myths. However they rejected the myth of helplessness and endorsed the view that emergency crowds display resilience. Despite these contradictions in stated beliefs, there was also evidence of ideological coherence: each model of mass emergency behavior (maladaptive versus resilient) was linked to a model of crowd management (coercive and paternalistic versus mass-democratic). The practical implications of these findings are discussed.

From risk to resilience: What role for community greening and civic ecology in cities

by Keith Tidball

Toward an ecology of environmental education and learning

by Keith Tidball

Co-authored with Marianne Krasny.

Environmental education traditionally has focused on changing individual knowledge,attitudes, and behavior. Concern... more Environmental education traditionally has focused on changing individual knowledge,attitudes, and behavior. Concern about environmental education’s lack of effectiveness in instilling an understanding of human’s role within ecosystems has led us to an exploration of the relationship of learning and education to the larger social-ecological systems in which they are embedded. We draw from socio-cultural learning theory and from frameworks developed by long-term ecological research, hierarchy theory, and social-ecological systems resilience to suggest an ‘‘ecology of learning’’ and an ‘‘ecology of environmental education.’’ In so doing, we hope to open up new research and practices that consider possibilities for environmental education to act in consort with other initiatives, such as local stewardship efforts, to foster social capital, ecosystem services, and other attributes of resilient social-ecological systems.

RESPONSES OF AGRICULTURAL BIOENERGY PRODUCTION IN BRANDENBURG TO ECOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC AND LEGAL CHANGES: AN APPLICATION OF …

by Melf-Hinrich Ehlers