This photo is of Amy Quandt conducting an interview with a woman in Isiolo County, Kenya about what livelihoods she thinks will do well given the impacts of climate change.
Building resilience of vulnerable people and communities is critical in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction efforts. However, approaches to resilience are often top-down and expert-driven. In this paper, we highlight the importance of defining and measuring resilience from the perspectives of vulnerable people and communities themselves. This subjective approach to understanding resilience is a critical addition to climate change adaptation work, as most people have good understanding of the risks they face and possible solutions. By drawing from both objective and subjective methods of analysis we can expand upon the normative questions of “resilience of what, to what, and for whom” to include “resilience as defined and measured by whom” in future research and
policy-making.
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