Geog254 08 Risk 2 Resilience Review PDF
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This document discusses resilience politics, including robustness, recovery, reform, and redesign as approaches to disaster resilience. It highlights the need for deep-seated societal reconstruction to address the root causes of precarity.
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GEOG 254 Society and Environment 08 Geographies of Risk: Risk, Hazards and Resilience Part 2: Resilience RESILIENCE POLITICS…. Robustness Engineering systems so that they might increase their immunity to external disturbances affords reassuring protection, but there will be hazar...
GEOG 254 Society and Environment 08 Geographies of Risk: Risk, Hazards and Resilience Part 2: Resilience RESILIENCE POLITICS…. Robustness Engineering systems so that they might increase their immunity to external disturbances affords reassuring protection, but there will be hazards that overwhelm even the strongest of vaccines, and in these instances resistance will be futile. Recovery Helping vulnerable populations recover from a disaster is a worthy endeavor, but not if it merely serves to preserve the social, economic, cultural, and political processes that produced precarity in the first instance. Reform Strengthening the rights of citizens by reforming the existing political order is obviously a welcome development, but not if it produces tokenistic transfers of power that only marginally reduce risk. Redesign transforming societies to address the root causes of precarity may provide the only durable solution to human induced vulnerability, but it is questionable whether deep‐seated societal reconstruction is wise in times of existing upheaval or in the immediate aftermath.
