ABSTRACT
This chapter evaluates the purpose of global and local disaster resilience. This is achieved via the hypothetical construction of the ideal resilient person according to global, Pacific and Caribbean worldviews. It examines how a person infused with a global or local worldview on resilience would hypothetically manage contingencies. The anticipated results of investing in DRR are stability, wellbeing and prosperity. This idealised depiction of the global worldview on resilience – set within the future–present – provides a script for the ideal resilient person. The resilient person lives in the future–present, always investing, planning and thinking about how to mitigate and adapt to potential disasters that may cause adversity to his or her life. The ‘global person’ would thus conform to the assumption written in many development programmes that greater economic prosperity means greater wellbeing as a precondition for a resilient life.
