There is now wide agreement that the interactions among climate change trends, ecosystem fragility and geo-political instability have produced new configurations of risks that are increasingly difficult to predict. The combined effect of these new risk configurations has in turn placed a more pronounced set of negative pressures on the agro-ecological systems, economic resources, and social institutions that affect welfare dynamics. Consequently, the well-being of the world’s poor, that portion of the world population with the fewest protections, is now subject to a more challenging series of shocks and stressors. Viewed by many as a strategic approach to deal with the range of unpredictable risks that undermine well-being, resilience has recently emerged as a key concept for policy and program development.
This paper sets an agenda for resilience measurement. It presents ten design principles that introduce the primary objectives and challenges associated with resilience measurement. In addition, it highlights general technical guidelines for use in promoting rigor in all measurement approaches. This FSIN Technical Series No.1 is the first of three papers3 that will be issued over the course of the next year.
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