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Tanner, Thomas, Bahadur, Aditya and Moench, Marcus (2017) Challenges for resilience policy and practice. London: Overseas Development Institute.

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Abstract

Resilience is interpreted in multiple, often conflicting ways, which prompts critiques but is also viewed by others as a strength, bringing together otherwise disparate groups, institutions, disciplines and scales. The absence of explicit values within resilience concepts has caused some authors to caution its use as a guiding narrative or framework. A major challenge for practitioners lies in how to explicitly inject values and to navigate tradeoffs in resilience between groups, locations and timescales. This working paper sets out the multiple ways in which resilience is interpreted. It highlights the broad dichotomy between functional and dynamic interpretations of resilience, which lead to different operational approaches. A functional perspective tends to fit with existing institutional approaches and a projectised approach, while dynamic interpretations perhaps represent the complexities and chaos evident across the world. The inconsistent treatment of system transformations is also a major challenge; while some see transformation as occurring incrementally within a system, others see it as when resilience fails and systems collapse.

Item Type: Monographs and Working Papers (Working Paper)
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Development Studies
Copyright Statement: © Overseas Development Institute 2017. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons AttributionNonCommercial Licence (CC BY-NC 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Date Deposited: 26 Jul 2019 13:17
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/31366

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