13Self-organization and its role in building disaster resilience
Introduction
The emphasis of this chapter is that crisis management must reinvent its foundations to be truly operational, particularly to address the role of emerging groups in the process of recovery from catastrophic events. This concept relates to the work of Lagadec and Topper (2012). Lalonde (2004) pointed to emergence of new leaders at the level of local community as a disaster unfolds over time. Resilience is an attribute of emergence, enacted through local actors and individual organizations. The framework for assessment of resilience is deduced from the phenomenon of self-organization in complex, chaotic environments. These new leaders may not be part ...
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