Root Resilience Essay

Coming from the Latin root resi-lire, meaning to spring back, resilience was first used by physical scientists to denote the characteristics of a spring and describe the stability of materials and their resistance to external shocks. - (DAVOUDI, june 2012) When we talk about resilience there are many theories which define different types of resilience like engineering resilience, ecological resilience, urban resilience, indiviual resilience etc.
According to Holling, Engineering resilience talk about the ability of a system to return to an
Equilibrium or steady-state after a disturbance (Holling, 1973, 1986). The faster the system faster will be rate to bounce back.
The same author defines ecological resilience as “the magnitude of the disturbance

TYPES OF FLOODS
Flooding is mostly associated with rivers leaving their banks but flooding can also occur in places other than along rivers.
The most common type of flooding experienced by communities is Riverine Flooding also known as over bank flooding. This type of flooding occurs when a river channel receives more rain or snow melts from the watershed than it has capacity to hold. The excess water tops the banks of the channel and spread across the flood plains.
Flash Flooding- This type of flooding is caused by extreme rainfall occuring over a short period of time. Flash floods often occur in smaller watersheds and in rivers with steep slopes where water velocities are high and warning times are short. It may also occur or be more severe in urban areas where impervious surfaces convert nearly all rainfall from severe storm into surface runoff.
There are also many other type of flooding like Coastal flooding, inland flooding, Sewer flooding, Ground Water flooding etc.
2.2.3. DISASTER MANAGEMENT

Resilient Communities

Towards resilient communities in developing countries– (Yasamin O. Izadkhah, 2005)

In developing countries, there is not enough material and people for educating all sections of society about disasters and their risks. Awareness is equally important with mitigation, hence the best way to educate people is by introducing these awareness about disasters in children’s education and activities.
Children under 18 years of age are more capable to gaining these knowledge, skills. This education and information can be easily used to motivate children as population in developing countries contains half population of children under 18 years of age. Children are a good source of spreading this knowledge among their societies and families. Parents and families accept easily knowledge shared by their children.

The objective is to look at awareness-raising as a core to all disaster mitigation programmes and focusing on earthquake education through children.

The programme proposed, fulfils the need for making community resilient to bounce back during disaster and emergency