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- What’s the best way to measure the resilience of a community’s infrastructure (its buildings as well as its emergency support structures) when faced by climate change and pressurized by economic disadvantage, and how can we increase that resilience?
- How can we measure a community’s resilience in the face of natural and man-made disasters, i.e. the ability of individuals to bounce back after a disaster after a pandemic, for example, and how can we enhance that resilience?
- Where does human resilience come from?
- What happens when we use hermeneutic paradigms from another discipline to explore our traditional understandings of resilience?
To answer questions like these we realised that we needed to use a variety of approaches, hence this project’s interdisciplinary approach, and analyse resilience within a variety of different spatial contexts – hence the decision to work with researchers in Chile where researchers have a long record of dealing with natural disasters such as earthquakes.
Image: Acatenango, Guatemala, photo by Caitlin Wynne on Unsplash