Print Email Facebook Twitter Measuring social resilience Title Measuring social resilience: Trade-offs, challenges and opportunities for indicator models in transforming societies Author Copeland, S.M. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Comes, M. (TU Delft System Engineering; TU Delft Transport and Logistics) Bach, Sylvia (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) Nagenborg, Michael (University of Twente) Schulte, Yannic (Bergische Universität Wuppertal) Doorn, N. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) Date 2020 Abstract More than any other facet of resilience, social resilience raises the inherent tension within the concept between identity or persistence, and transformation. Is a community the people who make it up, or the geography or physical infrastructure they share? What about the resilience of communities that transform, as a result of a sudden disaster or over time? In this paper, we explore the impact of this tension on how social resilience indicators can be developed and used. Beginning with a close look at the ways in which our concepts of resilience and our use of indicators interact, several points are raised. First, that how we identify a community and frame its resilience conveys particular conceptualisations of resilience, which in turn have normative implications for the communities themselves. In part, this is because of the difficulty in capturing important adaptations and transformative actions within and by those communities. Further, measuring and comparing the resilience of communities, and aspects of quantification that go along with selecting, aggregating and comparing indicator values, ensure that the decisions made about how indicators ought to be used carry normative weight. Through this exploration, we identify several normative implications of choices in indicator design and application. We conclude with recommendations for moving forward with greater transparency and responsibility toward those communities whose social resilience we hope to measure in order to improve. Subject AdaptationDecision-makingIndicatorsNormativitySocial resilienceTransformation To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e79b1ea0-60c6-4ac4-8829-ff745430195a DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101799 ISSN 2212-4209 Source International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 51 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2020 S.M. Copeland, M. Comes, Sylvia Bach, Michael Nagenborg, Yannic Schulte, N. Doorn Files PDF 1_s2.0_S2212420920313017_main.pdf 645.31 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:e79b1ea0-60c6-4ac4-8829-ff745430195a/datastream/OBJ/view