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Establishing evidence for resilience: a case of monsoon flood-affected communities in the Gangetic Plains of South Asia

Saxena, Alark ; Huneeus, Camilo Jesus

Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change, 2022-06, Vol.27 (5), Article 35 [同儕審閱期刊]

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Establishing evidence for resilience: a case of monsoon flood-affected communities in the Gangetic Plains of South Asia
著者: Saxena, Alark ; Huneeus, Camilo Jesus
主題: Atmospheric Sciences ; Climate Change Management and Policy ; Earth and Environmental Science ; Earth Sciences ; Environmental Management ; Evaluation ; Households ; Methods ; Monsoons ; Nonlinear systems ; Nonlinearity ; Original Article ; Resilience ; System dynamics ; Variance analysis ; Wind
所屬期刊: Mitigation and adaptation strategies for global change, 2022-06, Vol.27 (5), Article 35
描述: The concept of resilience has been rapidly accepted across multiple disciplines and spheres of applied work, but operationalizing resilience poses several methodological challenges. Issues associated with complexity due to system dynamics, nonlinearity, and self-organization render traditional evaluation methods insufficient and often speculative. Focusing on system actors, processes and structures, and the scales of the system involved, we provide a framework and methodology to establish evidence and evaluate resilience. We take the case of two transboundary communities situated in the Gangetic plains of South Asia, i.e., Paklihawa (Nepal) and Shivpur (India), that are affected by annual monsoonal floods. Using an accessibility-based livelihood framework, we identified key indicators contributing to resilience and measured them in select households, pre- and post-monsoon, over three consecutive years. Focusing on the variation in well-being and coping capacity, we recommend two propositions that must simultaneously be satisfied for increased resilience. Over time, first, the well-being of the communities should increase, and second, the magnitude of recovery from shocks by the communities should decrease, approaching zero. We used a repeated measures analysis of variance to evaluate the significance of changes in well-being and recoveries over time. Our analysis shows that the resilience of Paklihawa increased significantly while Shivpur’s remained inconclusive. The two propositions and the methodology are robust to a wide range of shocks and social-ecological systems. This study contributes to the growing need for approaches toward measuring resilience and the monitoring and evaluation of resilience-focused interventions.
出版者: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
語言: 英文
識別號: ISSN: 1381-2386
EISSN: 1573-1596
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-022-10009-6
資源來源: SpringerLink 现刊

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