Measuring 'Subjective Resilience': Using Peoples' Perceptions to Quantify Household Resilience

Jones, Lindsey; Tanner, Thomas

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“…Though yet to be fully explored in both conceptual and practical terms, subjective methods may offer an alternative and complementary approach to objective assessments of resilience (Marshall and Marshall 2007, Nguyen and James 2013, Jones and Tanner 2015, Maxwell et al 2015, Béné et al 2016a,b, Seara et al 2016. Subjective evaluations are often used to gain bottom up and grounded insights into people's own understandings of resilience and its components.…”

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“…At its simplest, subjective household resilience relates to an individual's cognitive and affective self-evaluation of the capabilities and capacities of their household, community, or any other social system to respond to risk (Jones and Tanner 2015). If care is taken to design suitable methodologies and survey questions, then a household's subjective resilience can, in theory, be readily quantified.…”

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“…Although open-ended questions might provide rich qualitative detail, closed-ended questions are more likely to enable the aggregation of scorings of resilience capacities and to facilitate comparison across social groups or time (OECD 2013). Indeed, insights and research from related fields, such as subjective wellbeing, risk perception, and psychological resilience suggest that that standardized subjective evaluations may help to capture many "softer" elements of resilience-related capacities; allow comparison across different contexts; and permit individuals' knowledge of the factors that contribute to their own resilience to be incorporated (Jones and Tanner 2015).…”

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“…To date, most of these methods have focused on objective indicators and approaches, often centered on observing key socioeconomic variables and other types of capital that support people's livelihoods (Bahadur and Pichon 2017). More recently, the advantages of subjective approaches to measuring social systems have been advocated (Marshall and Marshall 2007, Jones and Tanner 2015, Lockwood et al 2015, Maxwell et al 2015, Béné et al 2016a. These methods may offer the opportunity to address many weaknesses that beset traditional objective approaches, such as difficulties with indicator selection, a lack of attention to context specificity, and an inability to take people's knowledge of their own resilience into account.…”

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Subjective measures of household resilience to climate variability and change: insights from a nationally representative survey of Tanzania

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Samman²,

Vinck³

2018

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ABSTRACT. Promoting household resilience to climate extremes has emerged as a key development priority. Yet tracking and evaluating resilience at this level remains a critical challenge. Most quantitative approaches rely on objective indicators and assessment frameworks, but these are not fully satisfactory. Much of the difficulty arises from a combination of conceptual ambiguities, challenges in selecting appropriate indicators, and in measuring the many intangible aspects that contribute to household resilience. More recently, subjective measures of resilience have been advocated in helping to overcome some of the limitations of traditional objective characterizations. However, few large-scale studies of quantitative subjective approaches to resilience measurement have been conducted.In this study, we address this gap by exploring perceived levels of household resilience to climate extremes in Tanzania and the utility of standardized subjective methods for its assessment. A nationally representative cross-sectional survey involving 1294 individuals was carried out by mobile phone in June 2015 among randomly selected adult respondents aged 18 and above. Factors that are most associated with resilience-related capacities are having had advance knowledge of a previous flood, and to a lesser extent, believing flooding to be a serious community problem. Somewhat surprisingly, though a small number of weak relationships are apparent, most socio-demographic variables do not exhibit statistically significant differences with regards to perceived resilience-related capacities. These findings may challenge traditional assumptions about what factors characterize household resilience, offering a motivation for studying both subjective and objective perspectives, and understanding better their relationship to one another. If further validated, subjective measures may offer potential as both a complement and alternative to traditional objective methods of resilience measurement, each with their own merits and limitations.

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Section: Background and Contextmentioning

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Section: Background and Contextmentioning

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Subjective measures of household resilience to climate variability and change: insights from a nationally representative survey of Tanzania

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2018

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“…It is about their lives and their place, and this is critical in making the story real, relevant, salient, and interesting. This also adds to current discussions of the need for more analyses of subjective or experiential resilience (Jones andTanner 2015, Brown 2016).…”

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The drama of resilience: learning, doing, and sharing for sustainability

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Huke³

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Cross‐country Evidence of the Relationship Between Resilience and the Subjective Perception of Well‐being and Social Inclusion: Evidence from the Regions of Matam (Senegal) and the Triangle of Hope (Mauritania)

d’Errico

Grazioli²,

Pietrelli³

2017

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Resilience, commonly perceived as an unobservable household characteristic, has been defined differently according to each measurement approach utilized. This paper contributes to the literature, both conceptually, by reviewing the link between resilience, subjective well‐being and social inclusion; and analytically, by providing statistical evidence of whether subjective measures of well‐being are associated with higher household resilience. The paper shows that those who perceive themselves and their community to be involved in the decision‐making process related to policies and service provision are associated with greater resilience capacity. The empirical evidence is based on two household surveys in Senegal and Mauritania. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Measuring 'Subjective Resilience': Using Peoples' Perceptions to Quantify Household Resilience

Cited by 56 publications

References 68 publications

Subjective measures of household resilience to climate variability and change: insights from a nationally representative survey of Tanzania

Subjective measures of household resilience to climate variability and change: insights from a nationally representative survey of Tanzania

The drama of resilience: learning, doing, and sharing for sustainability

Cross‐country Evidence of the Relationship Between Resilience and the Subjective Perception of Well‐being and Social Inclusion: Evidence from the Regions of Matam (Senegal) and the Triangle of Hope (Mauritania)

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