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Unit 1 presentation: Resilience and Vulnerability on 5 February 2014
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RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY PGDD512
ADMINISTRATIVE
• eFundi?
• Penzu?
• ACDS user account
• Office hours - please make appointment with Suna Meyer ([email protected])
• SASDiR.org
STUDY MATERIAL
• Study guide (read GUIDE!…and read
READ!)
• No prescribed book
• LOTS of prescribed reading!
• Style: Peer/cooperative/self learning
EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT
• Participation mark = 25%
• Assignments = 25%
• Examination = 50%
• Sub minimum = 40%
MODULE OUTCOMES
• Critically judge vulnerability and resilience.
• Apply various models.
• Monitor and communicate vulnerability and exposure.
• Communicate V&R to diverse audience.
UNITS
• Unit 1: Conceptualisation
• Unit 2: SES and exposure
• Unit 3: V&R indicators
• Unit 4: Resilience building and adaptation
• Unit 5: Disaster risk assessment
• Unit 6: Food security and sustainable livelihoods
• Unit 7: Urban disaster risks.
• Unit 8: EWS
• Unit 9: Gender and DRR
CONCEPTUALISATIONRESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY
ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
Methodology
Theory
Practice
What is vulnerability?
VULNERABILITY
• Core concept in disaster risk, climate change and food security.
• Related to aspects of exposure and sensitivity.
VULNERABILITY
Inability of individuals or communities to anticipate, change, cope with, and adapt to
certain social, economic, political and physical created factors which are/could be exploited by
natural and anthropogenic hazards.
What is resilience?
RESILIENCE
“The capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and
reorganise while undergoing change so as to still retain
essentially the same function, structure and feedbacks,
and therefore identity, that is, the capacity to change in
order to maintain the same identity”
DIFFERENT EMPHASISDIFFERENT TRADITIONS
• Natural science - positivist
• Social science -
constructivist
DISCIPLINARY ORIGINS
• Epistemology (what is knowledge?)
• Resilience —> SES
• Vulnerability —> multiple disciplines (hazard science, human ecology, development studies, political economy)
Question remains:
Resilient or Vulnerable to WHAT?
Is resilience and vulnerability opposites?
HOW DOES SYSTEMS RESPOND TO CHANGE?
Resilience as another dimension of vulnerability - following exposure and
sensitivity
We need to find a convergence of the terms…
PERSONAL JOURNAL
• Create a journal entry and share only with your lecturers
• By Monday morning (10 Feb 2014).
• AFTER doing your reading reflect on the terms resilience and vulnerability.
• What is their essence and where do they converge?