What is disaster resilience? How is it determined? Describe various elements of a resilience framework. Also mention the global targets of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030).
Disaster resilience refers to the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate, adapt to, transform, and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, preserving or restoring its essential basic structures and functions. It's about not just bouncing back, but "bouncing forward" – emerging stronger and less vulnerable.
Resilience is determined by assessing a community's capacity across multiple dimensions: economic (diversified livelihoods, financial safety nets), social (cohesion, education, health services), institutional (effective governance, robust laws, early warning systems), infrastructural (hazard-resistant buildings, redundant utilities), and environmental (healthy ecosystems, resource management). It's a measure of adaptive, coping, and recovery capabilities.
A comprehensive resilience framework typically includes several elements:
- Strong Governance and Institutions: Clear policies, legal frameworks, and coordinated agencies for disaster risk reduction (DRR).
- Risk Assessment and Knowledge: Understanding hazards, vulnerabilities, and capacities through data and scientific analysis.
- Investment in DRR: Allocating resources for protective infrastructure, early warning systems, and community preparedness.
- Preparedness and Response: Developing emergency plans, conducting drills, and ensuring effective relief mechanisms.
- Build Back Better: Integrating risk reduction into recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction efforts.
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015–2030) outlines seven global targets:
Substantially reduce global disaster mortality.
Substantially reduce the number of affected people globally.
Reduce direct disaster economic loss in relation to global GDP.
Substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services.
Substantially increase the number of countries with national and local DRR strategies.
Substantially enhance international cooperation to developing countries.
Substantially increase the availability of and access to multi-hazard early warning systems and disaster risk information.
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