Resilience scan April-June 2016: A review of literature, debates and social media activity on resilience
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This scan summarises writing and debates in the field of resilience during the second quarter of 2016, focusing primarily on the context of developing countries. The scan will be of particular interest to those implementing resilience projects and policies and those seeking summaries of current debates in resilience thinking.
It features:
- insights on improving the business case for investing in resilience;
- summaries of key blogs, grey literature and academic journal articles on resilience;
- the insights from this literature for five characteristics of resilience;
- insights on key international policy processes in 2016;
- analysis of Twitter activity on resilience;
- and summaries of high impact grey literature and academic journal articles.
The final chapter synthesises the insights from literature in terms of five characteristics of resilience:
- awareness;
- diversity;
- self-regulation;
- integration;
- and adaptiveness.
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Number of pages
48 p.
Publication year
2016