Shaw, Duncan, Scully, Judy and Hart, Tom (2014) The paradox of social resilience : how cognitive strategies and coping mechanisms attenuate and accentuate resilience. Global Environmental Change, Volume 25 . pp. 194-203. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.006 ISSN 0959-3780.

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Abstract

This paper examines two concepts, social vulnerability and social resilience, often used to describe people and their relationship to a disaster. Social vulnerability is the exposure to harm resulting from demographic and socioeconomic factors that heighten the exposure to disaster. Social resilience is the ability to avoid disaster, cope with change and recover from disaster. Vulnerability to a space and social resilience through society is explored through a focus on the elderly, a group sometimes regarded as having low resilience while being particularly vulnerable. Our findings explore the degree to which an elderly group exposed to coastal flood risk exhibits social resilience through both cognitive strategies, such as risk perception and self-perception, as well as through coping mechanisms, such as accepting change and self-organisation. These attenuate and accentuate the resilience of individuals through their own preparations as well as their communities’ preparations and also contribute to the delusion of resilience which leads individuals to act as if they are more resilient than they are in reality, which we call negative resilience. Thus, we draw attention to three main areas: the degree to which social vulnerability can disguise its social resilience; the role played by cognitive strategies and coping mechanisms on an individual's social resilience; and the high risk aspects of social resilience.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Operational Research & Management Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title:	Global Environmental Change
Publisher:	Pergamon
ISSN:	0959-3780
Official Date:	6 March 2014
Dates:	Date Event 6 March 2014 Published 6 February 2014 Available 6 January 2014 Accepted 28 March 2013 Submitted
Volume:	Volume 25
Page Range:	pp. 194-203
DOI:	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.006
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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