Background: Government, industry and charitable organisations have an increasing focus
on programs intended to support community resilience to disasters. But has consensus been …

Communities have the potential to function effectively and adapt successfully in the
aftermath of disasters. Drawing upon literatures in several disciplines, we present a theory of …

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 …

Psychological resilience has become a popular concept. Owing to that popularity, the word
resilience has taken on myriad and often overlap** meanings. To be a useful framework …

Positive psychology approaches have been shown to play a vital role in protecting mental
health in times of challenge and are, therefore, important to include when studying the …

Change is a constant force, in nature and in society. Research suggests that resilience
pertains to the ability of a system to sustain itself through change via adaptation and …

Resilience is a multifaceted phenomenon, and approaches to measure resilience across
disciplines have produced wide-ranging methods. This paper presents an inclusive and …

In the context of accelerated global change, the concept of resilience, with its roots in
ecological theory and complex adaptive systems, has emerged as the favored framework for …

Resilience has been most frequently defined as positive adaptation despite adversity. Over
the past 40 years, resilience research has gone through several stages. From an initial focus …

What is community resilience in relation to violent extremism, and how can we build it? This
article explores strategies to harness community assets that may contribute to preventing …