Surrogate Measures to Assess Mobility of People as a Resilience Indicator in Disaster Management: An Exploratory Study in Southeastern Sri Lanka
Abstract Understanding social resilience can assist in the formulation of disaster management policies to help communities better prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. However, direct social resilience measurement methods such as household surveys are not always a practical option as...
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| author | A. M. Aslam Saja Melissa Teo Ashantha Goonetilleke Abdul M. Ziyath K. W. G. Rekha Nianthi |
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| description | Abstract Understanding social resilience can assist in the formulation of disaster management policies to help communities better prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. However, direct social resilience measurement methods such as household surveys are not always a practical option as they are a time- and resource-exhaustive process. Existing measures mainly utilize publicly available census data, which often provide a poor and outdated assessment of current social resilience status. Another limitation includes a failure to capture multiple facets of indicators that are process-oriented and dynamic in nature such as mobility of people. These challenges can be addressed by employing a surrogate approach. Surrogates are alternative measures to depict the target indicator. The surrogate approach can capture key facets of a target indicator, which can be used as potential measures for the target indicator. A framework to conceptualize the surrogate approach is presented, and operationalized using a case study approach on the southeastern coast of Sri Lanka to identify surrogates to measure mobility of people as a resilience indicator. Six higher-order themes were identified as potential surrogates to measure mobility of people in a disaster context. The approach proposed to methodically identify potential surrogates and their measurement protocols can help to improve the current knowledge base and understanding of complex interrelationships of social resilience. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f0ff0e5ee45149b5af97c7a38fec10ca2022-12-21T19:05:02ZengSpringerOpenInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Science2095-00552192-63952020-02-01111133110.1007/s13753-020-00251-4Surrogate Measures to Assess Mobility of People as a Resilience Indicator in Disaster Management: An Exploratory Study in Southeastern Sri LankaA. M. Aslam Saja0Melissa Teo1Ashantha Goonetilleke2Abdul M. Ziyath3K. W. G. Rekha Nianthi4Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)Faculty of Arts, University of PeradeniyaAbstract Understanding social resilience can assist in the formulation of disaster management policies to help communities better prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. However, direct social resilience measurement methods such as household surveys are not always a practical option as they are a time- and resource-exhaustive process. Existing measures mainly utilize publicly available census data, which often provide a poor and outdated assessment of current social resilience status. Another limitation includes a failure to capture multiple facets of indicators that are process-oriented and dynamic in nature such as mobility of people. These challenges can be addressed by employing a surrogate approach. Surrogates are alternative measures to depict the target indicator. The surrogate approach can capture key facets of a target indicator, which can be used as potential measures for the target indicator. A framework to conceptualize the surrogate approach is presented, and operationalized using a case study approach on the southeastern coast of Sri Lanka to identify surrogates to measure mobility of people as a resilience indicator. Six higher-order themes were identified as potential surrogates to measure mobility of people in a disaster context. The approach proposed to methodically identify potential surrogates and their measurement protocols can help to improve the current knowledge base and understanding of complex interrelationships of social resilience.https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-020-00251-4Community resilienceResilience characteristicsResilience indicatorsResilience measurementsSocial resilienceSri Lanka |
| spellingShingle | A. M. Aslam Saja Melissa Teo Ashantha Goonetilleke Abdul M. Ziyath K. W. G. Rekha Nianthi Surrogate Measures to Assess Mobility of People as a Resilience Indicator in Disaster Management: An Exploratory Study in Southeastern Sri Lanka International Journal of Disaster Risk Science Community resilience Resilience characteristics Resilience indicators Resilience measurements Social resilience Sri Lanka |
| title | Surrogate Measures to Assess Mobility of People as a Resilience Indicator in Disaster Management: An Exploratory Study in Southeastern Sri Lanka |
| title_full | Surrogate Measures to Assess Mobility of People as a Resilience Indicator in Disaster Management: An Exploratory Study in Southeastern Sri Lanka |
| title_fullStr | Surrogate Measures to Assess Mobility of People as a Resilience Indicator in Disaster Management: An Exploratory Study in Southeastern Sri Lanka |
| title_full_unstemmed | Surrogate Measures to Assess Mobility of People as a Resilience Indicator in Disaster Management: An Exploratory Study in Southeastern Sri Lanka |
| title_short | Surrogate Measures to Assess Mobility of People as a Resilience Indicator in Disaster Management: An Exploratory Study in Southeastern Sri Lanka |
| title_sort | surrogate measures to assess mobility of people as a resilience indicator in disaster management an exploratory study in southeastern sri lanka |
| topic | Community resilience Resilience characteristics Resilience indicators Resilience measurements Social resilience Sri Lanka |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/s13753-020-00251-4 |
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