Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe (emBRACE)

The emBRACE project aimed to improve the pan-European framing of the resilience concept. Using interdisciplinary, socially inclusive and collaborative methods, it has developed a conceptual and methodological approach to clarify how the resilience capacity of a society confronted with natural hazards and disasters can be characterized, defined and measured. Based on a systematic evaluation of the widest literature base, the project has elaborated an initial conceptual framework. Existing datasets have been interrogated to identify variables that provide indications of resilience and which are framework consistent. The framework and data have then been ‘tested’ and ground truthed by means of several carefully-chosen European case studies which have been differentiated by hazard, governance setting, socio-demographic-economic context and scale.