1036). Citing a host of adverse climactic circumstances and other negative phenomena that impacts the coastal zone, as well as historical incidents where large-scale casualties occurred in these regions, they provide a hypothetical- argument for the need for resilience of citizens of these coastal regions. They go on to demonstrate how, given today's expanded global connection, tragedy can more intensively impact wider swathes and lead to exacerbated damage, and, on the other hand, how condensed and unified human agency (on multiple NGO and governmental levels) can enhance resilience. Their argument is built on empirical evidence (the 2004 case history of the Asian tsunami) as well as research on planning for and adapting to storms and climactic changes in coastal zones and on small islands, and they proceed in an inferential, closely reasoned manner. In regards to the 2004 Asian tsunami, effective and instinctive positive response encouraged socio-ecologial resilience to the...

In other regions, however, where ecosystems have been undermined through lack of government interest, coastal zones have had a harder time resisting disaster.
Conclusions:

The argument of Adgar, et al. (2005) is convincing particularly since it is logical and since they quote a host of examples to support their point. They show, for instance, how fishing communities close to Sumatra survived the tsunami due to preparedness and how detrimental activities such as overfishing and land clearing makes resilience more difficult. They also demonstrate how, in the Caribbean, response to hurricanes depends on social and ecological resilience and how this resilience has been promoted through preparedness. These and numerous other aggregated examples from authenticated and reliable sources lend credence to their argument and provide weighty heft to a logical recommendation.

References

Adgar, W.N. et al. (2005).…