Citation

Kay E, Stevenson JR, Becker J, Hudson-Doyle E, Carter L, Campbell E, Ripley S, Johnston D, Neely D, Bowie C. Australas. J. Disaster Trauma Stud. 2019; 23(2): 113-123.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Massey University, School of Psychology)

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Abstract

Moving resilience thinking from theory to practice has been a national and international strategic imperative over the last decade. An ongoing collaboration between the Wellington Region Emergency Management Office (WREMO) and researchers associated with the International Research on Disaster Risk's International Centre of Excellence in Community Resilience (ICoE: CR) and Resilience to Nature's Challenges (RNC) Kia manawaroa - Ngā Ākina o Te Ao Tūroa National Science Challenge made progress towards operationalising theory-informed practice for disaster resilience measurement in the Wellington Region of Aotearoa New Zealand. Between 2014 and 2018, researchers, WREMO, and other key stakeholders engaged in a multi-stage co-learning process, including defining resilience, determining the measurement focus, and identifying measurable indicators. The process merged bottom-up and top-down resilience indicator identification and selection methods. This resulted in 10 resilience indicators that both link to national and international policy and meet the strategic, regional needs of WREMO.


Keywords: Resilience measurement, operationalisation, knowledge co-production, top-down and bottom-up assessment

Language: en