Abstract

Building resilience from the ground up.

Highlights

  • S234 Emily Wilkinson and Caroline King-OkumuBuilding resilience from the ground up S235Following a brief overview of how the term ‘resilience’ is being used in each of the articles, we examine how each has approached the challenge of understanding and measuring bottom-up interventions

  • We consider the multiple benefits or resilience dividends that make some of these projects unique, and reflect on what the authors consider are the prospects for effecting deeper structural, or transformative changes

  • Resilience is a curiously amorphous concept taken from the discipline of ecology to denote a self-sustaining dynamic capability (IPCC, 2014, n.p.):

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Introduction

Following a brief overview of how the term ‘resilience’ is being used in each of the articles, we examine how each has approached the challenge of understanding and measuring bottom-up interventions. We consider the multiple benefits or resilience dividends that make some of these projects unique, and reflect on what the authors consider are the prospects for effecting deeper structural, or transformative changes

Understanding resilience on the ground
Understanding the value of bottom up interventions
Effecting deeper structural changes
Overview of insights from the ground up
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