perspectives, from vulnerability studies to resilience thinking. However, the paper argues, this shift is problematic for the …

. Increasing the resilience and reducing the vulnerability of social–ecological systems (SES) so that they can withstand these …

loss. Though the vulnerability/resilience paradigm has largely replaced the hazards paradigm within the social sciences and … causation of disaster loss in terms of human vulnerability, but also newer questions have arisen regarding distinguishing … between the ‘physical exposure’ of people to threats and societal vulnerability, and linking them with propensity to hazards …

disrupted the supply of irrigation water for agriculture in paddy field areas and posed a substantial threat to farmers …’ livelihoods. Within a broader context of accessing farmers’ resilience to agricultural drought, this paper focuses on the response … three types of geographic units have different resilience profiles and have developed diverse patterns of adaptive processes …

no significant elevated areas available for relocation. The study aimed to gain an understanding of the vulnerability …, resilience and adaptive capacity of this community by studying the 2008 flood event. Structured questionnaires were administered …

Vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation are three fundamentally inter-related concepts among such research … evolution processes of vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation, and tentatively categorized past diverse thoughts of their … relationships into three modalities, such as, vulnerability preference, resilience preference, and overlapped relationships. From a …

Vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone; it also resides in the resilience of the system … experiencing the hazard. Resilience (the capacity of a system to absorb recurrent disturbances, such as natural disasters, so as to … retain essential structures, processes and feedbacks) is important for the discussion of vulnerability for three reasons: (1 …

combination of a dynamic bio- geophysical environment and intensified human use has increased the vulnerability of mountain social …–ecological systems to risk from hazards. The ability of social–ecological systems to build resilience in the context of hazards is an … important factor in their long-term sustainability. The role of resilience building in understanding the impact of hazards in …