Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development
Four decades of theory and research on resilience in human development have yielded informative lessons for planning disaster response and recovery. In developmental theory, resilience following disaster could take multiple forms, including stress resistance, recovery, and positive transformation. E...
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| description | Four decades of theory and research on resilience in human development have yielded informative lessons for planning disaster response and recovery. In developmental theory, resilience following disaster could take multiple forms, including stress resistance, recovery, and positive transformation. Empirical findings suggest that fundamental adaptive systems play a key role in the resilience of young people facing diverse threats, including attachment, agency, intelligence, behavior regulation systems, and social interactions with family, peers, school, and community systems. Although human resilience research emphasizes the adaptive well-being of particular individuals, there are striking parallels in resilience theory across the developmental and ecological sciences. Preparing societies for major disasters calls for the integration of human research on resilience with the theory and knowledge gained from other disciplines concerned with resilience in complex, dynamic systems, and particularly those systems that interact with human individuals as disaster unfolds. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35b7ce22b3f845929c86d1da8a92af772022-12-21T23:11:34ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872008-06-01131910.5751/ES-02282-1301092282Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human DevelopmentAnn S. Masten0Jelena Obradović1University of MinnesotaUniversity of British ColumbiaFour decades of theory and research on resilience in human development have yielded informative lessons for planning disaster response and recovery. In developmental theory, resilience following disaster could take multiple forms, including stress resistance, recovery, and positive transformation. Empirical findings suggest that fundamental adaptive systems play a key role in the resilience of young people facing diverse threats, including attachment, agency, intelligence, behavior regulation systems, and social interactions with family, peers, school, and community systems. Although human resilience research emphasizes the adaptive well-being of particular individuals, there are striking parallels in resilience theory across the developmental and ecological sciences. Preparing societies for major disasters calls for the integration of human research on resilience with the theory and knowledge gained from other disciplines concerned with resilience in complex, dynamic systems, and particularly those systems that interact with human individuals as disaster unfolds.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art9/resiliencedisasterhuman developmentchildrenrecovery |
| spellingShingle | Ann S. Masten Jelena Obradović Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development Ecology and Society resilience disaster human development children recovery |
| title | Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development |
| title_full | Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development |
| title_fullStr | Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development |
| title_short | Disaster Preparation and Recovery: Lessons from Research on Resilience in Human Development |
| title_sort | disaster preparation and recovery lessons from research on resilience in human development |
| topic | resilience disaster human development children recovery |
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