ABSTRACT
The resilience concept has had a major influence on Disaster Risk Reduction practices both in developing and developed countries. The chapter discusses the multiple faces of resilience. It explores how resilience leads to different forms of governance structures and mechanisms. In reality, when adopted by policy- and decision-makers, resilience is shaped, and shapes, different forms of governance that embrace diverse sets of values, and thus might embody dissimilar moral worth to stakeholders. The adoption of the resilience framework in different contexts has given rise to a range of very different governance approaches. The wide range of different contexts in which the resilience framework has been adopted leads to a variety of governance processes. Scholars, policy-makers and organisations alike have been enthusiastically seduced by the resilience concept. Governments and local authorities have increasingly adopted the resilience framework in order to deal with natural hazards and human-induced threats.
