Benefits and Challenges of Resilience and Vulnerability for Disaster Risk Management

• DOI: 10.1007/s13753-014-0008-3
• Publication Date: 2014-03-29T00:08:41Z
• Authors: Alexander Fekete; Gabriele Hufschmidt; Sylvia Kruse
• Keywords: Vulnerability; Resilience; Vagueness; Disaster risk reduction; Vulnerability management

This article addresses resilience and vulnerability as two prominent concepts within disaster risk science. The authors provide an overview of current uses benefits challenges to for management (DRM). summarizes the evolution these attempts define them precisely, potential conceptual vagueness. usage conception a selection strategies legislations in DRM are compared. Complementing this analysis research practice, survey identifies some seen by peer-community. Synthesizing three approaches, we conclude that certain methodological "haze" prevails, which hampers transfer information findings science, from science vice versa. But vagueness offers opportunities communication between policy, practice. Overall, evaluations lacking, demands development criteria identify assess DRM.