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2014-03-11Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/21557
Your Resilience is My Vulnerability
dc.contributor.authorSondershaus, Frank
dc.contributor.authorMoss, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-02T14:04:49Z
dc.date.available2020-07-02T14:04:49Z
dc.date.issued2014-03-11none
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/22301
dc.description.abstractThis paper uses an empirical analysis of a water conflict in the German state of Brandenburg to explore diverse constructions of vulnerability to water scarcity by local stakeholders. It demonstrates how, in the absence of effective formal institutions, these constructions are getting translated into conflictual resilience strategies practiced by these stakeholders, creating situations in which “your resilience is my vulnerability”. The novel contribution of the paper to resilience research is threefold. Firstly, it illustrates how the vulnerability and resilience of a socio-ecological system—such as small catchment—are socially constructed; that is, how they are not given but rather the product of stakeholders’ perceptions of threats and suitable responses to them. Secondly, the paper emphasizes the role of institutions—both formal and informal—in framing these vulnerability constructions and resilience strategies. Particular attention is paid to the importance of informal ‘rules in use’ emerging in the wake of (formal) ‘institutional voids’ and how they work against collective solutions. Thirdly, by choosing a small-scale, commonplace dispute to study vulnerability and resilience, the paper seeks to redress the imbalance of resilience research (and policy) on dramatic disaster events by revealing the relevance of everyday vulnerabilities, which may be less eye-catching but are far more widespread.eng
dc.language.isoengnone
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights(CC BY 3.0) Attribution 3.0 Unportedger
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.subjectresilienceeng
dc.subjectvulnerabilityeng
dc.subjectrules in useeng
dc.subjectwater conflicteng
dc.subjectwater scarcityeng
dc.subjectinstitutionseng
dc.subject.ddc551 Geologie, Hydrologie, Meteorologienone
dc.subject.ddc301 Soziologie und Anthropologienone
dc.titleYour Resilience is My Vulnerabilitynone
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/22301-3
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/21557
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionnone
local.edoc.pages21none
local.edoc.type-nameZeitschriftenartikel
local.edoc.container-typeperiodical
local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
dc.description.versionPeer Reviewednone
dc.title.subtitle‘Rules in Use’ in a Local Water Conflictnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi10.3390/socsci3010172
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleSocial Sciencesnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume3none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue1none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishernameMDPInone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplaceBaselnone
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart172none
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend192none
bua.departmentIntegrative Forschungsinstitutenone

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