Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa
Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development fac...
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| author | Davies, J. Robinson, Lance W. Ericksen, Polly J. |
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| description | Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development faces numerous challenges. Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes are adaptations or transformations, or whether this is a subjective or academic distinction. The lack of clarity presents a challenge for monitoring resilience-building investments, yet such investments require indicators of impact. We argue that resilience of the system per se is not the primary goal of development and may sometimes be an impediment. We propose an alternative approach to conceptualizing resilience that more accurately reflects the concerns of the humanitarian relief and development communities, one that is based on monitoring resilience of the development process, rather than resilience of a given system. |
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| spelling | CGSpace643512025-11-12T04:30:05Z Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa Davies, J. Robinson, Lance W. Ericksen, Polly J. drought Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed attention to building resilience of pastoral communities to droughts and other shocks. While resilience thinking has much to offer, using resilience as a framework for investing in disaster risk reduction and development faces numerous challenges. Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes are adaptations or transformations, or whether this is a subjective or academic distinction. The lack of clarity presents a challenge for monitoring resilience-building investments, yet such investments require indicators of impact. We argue that resilience of the system per se is not the primary goal of development and may sometimes be an impediment. We propose an alternative approach to conceptualizing resilience that more accurately reflects the concerns of the humanitarian relief and development communities, one that is based on monitoring resilience of the development process, rather than resilience of a given system. 2015-03-04 2015-03-30T10:21:57Z 2015-03-30T10:21:57Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/64351 en Open Access application/pdf Informa UK Limited Davies, J., Robinson, L.W. and Ericksen, P.J. 2015. Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa. Society and Natural Resources 28(3):328-343. |
| spellingShingle | drought Davies, J. Robinson, Lance W. Ericksen, Polly J. Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa |
| title | Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa |
| title_full | Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa |
| title_fullStr | Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa |
| title_short | Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa |
| title_sort | development process resilience and sustainable development insights from the drylands of eastern africa |
| topic | drought |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/64351 |
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