A systems approach to natural disaster resilience

Preparing for Complex Interdependent Risks: a System of Systems Approach to Building Disaster Resilience

Education, Vulnerability, and Resilience after a Natural Disaster.

The extent to which education provides protection in the face of a large-scale natural disaster is investigated. Using longitudinal population-representative survey data collected in two provinces on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, before and after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, we examine changes in a broad array of indicators of well-being of adults. Focusing on adults who were living, befo...

Post disaster resilience

Traumatic events like September 11 and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita (H-KR) have heightened national awareness on the effects that such events can have on communities and specific populations. These disasters not only had major effects on those directly impacted by the hurricane, but also on first responders and the subsequent teams of personnel who provided aid to residents and evacuees. Student...

How Do Communities Use a Participatory Public Health Approach to Build Resilience? The Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project

Community resilience is a key concept in the National Health Security Strategy that emphasizes development of multi-sector partnerships and equity through community engagement. Here, we describe the advancement of CR principles through community participatory methods in the Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR) initiative. LACCDR, an initiative led by the Los Angeles County ...

A systems approach to stress, stressors and resilience in humans

The paper focuses on the biology of stress and resilience and their biomarkers in humans from the system science perspective. A stressor pushes the physiological system away from its baseline state toward a lower utility state. The physiological system may return toward the original state in one attractor basin but may be shifted to a state in another, lower utility attractor basin. While some ...