The concept and application of resilience in a resistance economy with a human capital approach

Despite the recent popularity and frequent use of the resilience concept in the academic, research, and policy programs, there is a limited theoretical understanding of this concept. For instance, it is not clear how this concept should be operationalized and what its determinant factors are or how they can be measured. This paper is an attempt to develop a conceptual and methodological framework for the analysis, measurement, and mapping of resilience. The paper specifically intends to archive three objectives. Firstly, it examines the general definitional issues of the concept of resilience with a focus on human capital. Secondly, it reviews the frameworks that are currently used to measure community resilience. Thirdly, it evaluates the existing methods that are used to develop resilience indices, and based on this review, a methodology on how to measure community resilience is proposed. Finally, it summarizes the limitations and recommendations for further improvement of the methodology. The major core of this article is on the Community and resilience economy emphasizing on human capital.