Measuring psychological resilience to disasters: are evidence-based indicators an achievable goal?

ABSTRACT: Despite rising interest on the concept of societal resilience and its measurement, little has been done to provide operational indicators. Importantly, an evidence-based approach to assess the suitability of indicators remains unexplored. Furthermore few approaches that exist do not investigate indicators of psychological resilience, which is emerging as an important component of societal resilience to disasters. Disasters are events which overwhelm local capacities, often producing human losses, injury and damage to the affected communities. As climate hazards and disasters are likely to increase in the coming decades, strengthening the capacity of societies to withstand these shocks and recover quickly is vital. In this review, we search the Web of Knowledge to summarize the evidence on

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez-Llanes JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3893382 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature