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Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa

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Title Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa
 
Creator Robinson, Lance W.
 
Contributor Davies, Jon
Ericksen, Polly
 
Subject sustainable intensification
 
Description Recently, the development and humanitarian relief communities have directed their attention to building
resilience to droughts and other shocks and stresses. Using resilience as a framework for planning
investments in disaster risk reduction and development activities faces a number of challenges.
Development implies that people are actively changing, which poses the question of whether such changes
are adaptations or transformations, or whether this is a subjective or academic distinction. The lack of clarity
presents a challenge for monitoring resilience-building investments, yet such investments require indicators
of impact. In this paper we argue that resilience of the system per se is not the primary goal of development
and may sometimes be an impediment. We propose an alternative approach to conceptualizing resilience
that more accurately reflects the concerns of the humanitarian relief and development communities, which
is based on monitoring resilience of the development process, rather than resilience of a given system.
 
Date 2015-02-19
2016-05-14T20:04:10Z
2016-05-14T20:04:10Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/BZgZet5q
Lance W. Robinson, Jon Davies, Polly Ericksen. (19/2/2015). Development process resilience and sustainable development: Insights from the Drylands of Eastern Africa. London, United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4787
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher Taylor & Francis