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Advancing Resilience for Sustainable Development: A Capacity Development Approach

Becker, Per LU orcid (2021) In Sustainable Development in Africa p.525-540
Abstract
While Africa is one of the most promising continents in the world, it is facing mounting challenges to sustainable development in terms of disaster risk, climate change, environmental degradation and demographic and socioeconomic processes. Societies are thus increasingly conceived as having to be resilient to safeguard what they value over time. However, for resilience to have any practical meaning in relation to sustainable development requires further operationalization to facilitate both conceptual understanding and practical action. This chapter suggests such an operationalization, approaching resilience as an emergent property of a society’s ability to perform different essential functions—anticipation, recognition, adaptation, and... (More)
While Africa is one of the most promising continents in the world, it is facing mounting challenges to sustainable development in terms of disaster risk, climate change, environmental degradation and demographic and socioeconomic processes. Societies are thus increasingly conceived as having to be resilient to safeguard what they value over time. However, for resilience to have any practical meaning in relation to sustainable development requires further operationalization to facilitate both conceptual understanding and practical action. This chapter suggests such an operationalization, approaching resilience as an emergent property of a society’s ability to perform different essential functions—anticipation, recognition, adaptation, and learning—and contends that advancing resilience is about developing the capacity to perform these functions. Sustainable development can therefore be pursued through deliberate capacity development efforts explicitly targeting these functions and their interconnections. (Less)
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Sustainable development, Resilience, Capacity development, Emergence, Anticipation, Recognition, Adaptation, Learning
host publication
Sustainable Development in Africa : Fostering Sustainability in one of the World's Most Promising Continents - Fostering Sustainability in one of the World's Most Promising Continents
series title
Sustainable Development in Africa
editor
Leal Filho, Walter ; Pretorius, Rudi and de Sousa, Luiza Olim
pages
525 - 540
publisher
Springer
ISSN
2199-7381
2199-7373
ISBN
978-3-030-74693-3
978-3-030-74695-7
978-3-030-74692-6
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-74693-3_29
language
English
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yes
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29ff7cc8-fe0b-4755-a3b3-2faca981e019
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2021-07-25 17:08:32
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2021-12-01 11:55:13
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  booktitle    = {{Sustainable Development in Africa : Fostering Sustainability in one of the World's Most Promising Continents}},
  editor       = {{Leal Filho, Walter and Pretorius, Rudi and de Sousa, Luiza Olim}},
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  keywords     = {{Sustainable development; Resilience; Capacity development; Emergence; Anticipation; Recognition; Adaptation; Learning}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{07}},
  pages        = {{525--540}},
  publisher    = {{Springer}},
  series       = {{Sustainable Development in Africa}},
  title        = {{Advancing Resilience for Sustainable Development: A Capacity Development Approach}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74693-3_29}},
  doi          = {{10.1007/978-3-030-74693-3_29}},
  year         = {{2021}},
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