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10. Societal Resilience: From Theory to Policy and Practice

Author : Meir Elran

Published in: Resilience and Risk

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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Abstract

Societal resilience is defined in this essay as the capacity of communities to flexibly contain major disruptions and to rapidly bounce back and forward following the unavoidable decline of their core functionalities. The article examines the ways to translate the theory to a clear and determined policy and hence implementation in the field, before the disruption occurs and henceforth. While the theory is necessarily universal in nature, its practical ramifications are presented within the Israeli context. It is suggested that the Israeli scene, being challenged for decades by protracted terror, as a man made recurrent hazard, can be perceived as a national laboratory for practicing societal resilience.

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Footnotes
1
See, for example, an ICT report on aviation counterterrorism https://​www.​ict.​org.​il/​Article/​1757/​trends-in-aviation-terrorism
 
2
According to a special report on the activities of the steering committee on the deployment for earthquakes, 2012, submitted to the Israeli government on 29 March, 2012, the outcome of an earthquake in Israel, in a magnitude for occurrence is 5% within a period of fifty years are: 7000 fatalities, 9700 trapped in ruins, 170,000 homeless displaced, 28,000 buildings heavily impacted, 290,000 buildings medium to light impacted.
 
6
As presented by the special report entitled “The IDF Strategy”, 2015 https://​www.​idfblog.​com/​s/​Desktop/​IDF%20​Strategy.​pdf
 
9
This is a rather false narrative, as the factual history, since Israel’s War of Independence, witnessed plenty of civilian evacuations under conditions of hostilities.
 
10
The regional council “Eshkol” enjoys an increase of the population since 2010 of 2.4%, much higher than the national average, which was 1.9% in 2014. According to forecasts of “Urbanix”, the rate of growth might reach 6.4% in 2022
 
12
“Barometer Sapir”, http://.sapir.ac.il/content/4545
 
13
Strategic five years program for the advance of resilience for the communities of the “Gaza Envelope”, September, 2014
 
16
As defined by a ‘Background Paper’ for the enhancement of societal resilience in emergency situations, The Prime Minister’s Office’s round table, in cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, June 2016.
 
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Metadata
Title
Societal Resilience: From Theory to Policy and Practice
Author
Meir Elran
Copyright Year
2017
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Book
Resilience and Risk

Print ISBN: 978-94-024-1122-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-94-024-1123-2

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1123-2_10

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