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Resilience Is Not a One-Step Process

The Importance to Focus on the Post-recovery Phases at the Global South

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In this chapter, resilience is not considered to be a one-step process, as many policy frameworks have been proposed. We presented some trends in resilience and post-recovery management theoretical frameworks. Also, we suggested a possible cycle of post-disaster recovery that could be divided into three elementary principles: (1) encourage multihazard studies to understand the possible hazards that could impact the urban areas, (2) prioritize the investment in multiple platforms to encourage the monitoring in real time at high-risk areas including the social and ecological variables, and (3) promote the community resilience reinforcing the local-level volunteering and the three stages of resilience. Lastly, we presented two study cases from South Africa and Chile marked by the tsunamis and wetlands.

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CO wants to acknowledge the Beca de Doctorado Nacional ANID number 21200455. EJC wants to acknowledge FONDECYT project 1171065. CO wants to acknowledge to Karen Ojeda for her initial review of the manuscript.

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  1. Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Estudios Urbanos, Programa Doctorado en Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

    Carolina G. Ojeda

  2. Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Geografía, Departamento de Geografía, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile

    Edilia Jaque Castillo

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Ojeda, C.G., Jaque Castillo, E. (2020). Resilience Is Not a One-Step Process. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32811-5_71-1

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