...Dewald van Niekerk; Pieter Wernich Bredenkamp Purpose The purpose of this concept paper is to introduce the notion of the possibility of developing a mock Quantum Resilience Theory. The paper aims to clarify, in concise form, how disciplined analogies from quantum theory can enrich...

... the community (often those labeled as “vulnerable” by the researcher) and disaster researchers and practitioners, both parties have an essential role to play in a process that moves away from dehumanization. This could mean challenging disciplinary theory, training and received wisdom, and decentering...

... offer a new theory of vulnerability for the field, suggesting that complicating the concept can create space for liberatory discourse and organising. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw from diverse understandings of vulnerability to generate new conceptual ground for disaster scholars...

... revision in the body of disaster theory so that it can take account dynamic changes in the modern world. In the future, climate change and migration may radically alter the bases of vulnerability, risk and impact. The ways in which this will occur are not yet clear, but indications can be gained from...

... examples showing that the real world was complex, dynamic and non‐linear. This was so until developments in computer science provided the calculating means to the theory of complexity. Today, the theory of complexity is applied to many sciences and to disaster management as well. The application...

...Gerald Mars Suggests that sources of data on human failure, particularly case studies of specific disasters, have not been able to offer a generalized theory. Suggests that this can best be effected at the level of middle range theory based on analysis of the comparative structure of a workplace...