Disaster resiliency measurement frameworks State of the art

Since adoption of the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 “Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters”, the concept of disaster resilience has gained a wider interest and has become more popular among academic researchers and practitioners. Although the literature on urban studies and also the practical planning documents recurrently refers to resilience concept as a managerial principle behind making resilient cities and regions, operationalizing this concept in urban and regional planning context raises critical challenges in terms of its determinants and assessment. There exist a number of disaster resiliency frameworks and indicator sets in varying degrees of comprehensiveness, accuracy and validity which offer communities a set of indicators to measure and manage their resiliency in order to preserve their critical structures and functions in the face of disturbances and recover quickly to the desired pre-disaster conditions. This paper presents a critical review of resiliency models in the international urban resilience literature. It starts by defining and individuating the resiliency concept from other simila