Understanding social resilience can assist in the formulation of disaster management policies to help communities better prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters. However, direct social resilience measurement methods such as household surveys are not always a practical option as they are a time- and resource-exhaustive process. Existing measures mainly utilize publicly available census data, which often provide a poor and outdated assessment of current social resilience status. Another limitation includes a failure to capture multiple facets of indicators that are process-oriented and dynamic in nature such as mobility of people. These challenges can be addressed by employing a surrogate approach. Surrogates are alternative measures to depict the target indicator. The surrogate approach can capture key facets of a target indicator, which can be used as potential measures for the target indicator. A framework to conceptualize the surrogate approach is presented, and operationalized using a case study approach on the southeastern coast of Sri Lanka to identify surrogates to measure mobility of people as a resilience indicator. Six higher-order themes were identified as potential surrogates to measure mobility of people in a disaster context. The approach proposed to methodically identify potential surrogates and their measurement protocols can help to improve the current knowledge base and understanding of complex interrelationships of social resilience.

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评估人员流动性作为灾害管理恢复力指标的替代措施：斯里兰卡东南部的一项探索性研究

了解社会抗灾力可以帮助制定灾难管理政策，以帮助社区更好地为灾难做准备，做出响应并从中恢复。但是，直接的社会适应力测量方法（例如家庭调查）并不总是一种可行的选择，因为它们是时间和资源消耗过程。现有措施主要利用可公开获得的人口普查数据，这些数据通常不能很好地评估当前的社会抗灾能力。另一个局限性在于未能捕获指标的多个方面，这些指标本质上是面向过程的，动态的，例如人员流动。这些挑战可以通过采用替代方法来解决。替代指标是描述目标指标的替代措施。替代方法可以捕获目标指标的关键方面，可用作目标指标的潜在衡量指标。提出了一个概念化替代方法的框架，并在斯里兰卡东南沿海使用案例研究方法进行了操作，以识别替代物以衡量人员流动性，以此作为复原力指标。确定了六个更高阶的主题作为衡量灾难背景下人员流动性的潜在替代指标。提出的有系统地识别潜在替代物及其测量协议的方法可以帮助改善当前的知识库，并增强对社会适应力的复杂相互关系的理解。并在斯里兰卡东南沿海使用案例研究方法进行了操作，以确定代其测量人的流动性的替代指标，以此作为复原力指标。确定了六个更高阶的主题作为衡量灾难背景下人员流动性的潜在替代指标。提出的有系统地识别潜在替代物及其测量协议的方法可以帮助改善当前的知识库，并增强对社会适应力的复杂相互关系的理解。并在斯里兰卡东南沿海使用案例研究方法进行了操作，以识别用于衡量人员流动性的替代指标，以此作为复原力指标。确定了六个更高阶的主题作为衡量灾难背景下人员流动性的潜在替代指标。提出的有系统地识别潜在替代物及其测量协议的方法可以帮助改善当前的知识库，并增强对社会适应力的复杂相互关系的理解。