Abstract Scholars and policy makers argue that communities that increase their resilience are better positioned to protect themselves from disruptive events. The popularity of the resilience concept has created challenges for scholars and public policy makers. The most substantial challenge relates to whether there exists sufficient common understanding of resilience to enable the concept to be applied in research and public policy contexts. This article presents the findings of an analysis of resilience discussions in the homeland security literature. The analysis included the 56 articles that reference resilience terminology and are published in the journals: Homeland Security Affairs and the Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. Our findings indicate that resilience discussions in the homeland security literature seem to be converging towards a hybrid conceptualization of resilience, which suggests that a resilient system would have the capacity to both resist a disturbance and to quickly restore services if a disturbance could not be prevented. Despite this possible movement towards conceptual convergence, additional steps must be taken if resilience is to become a concept that can be used to guide the development and implementation of homeland security policy.

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国土安全文献中对复原力的考虑：迈向概念融合？

摘要学者和政策制定者认为，增强抵御能力的社区可以更好地保护自己免受破坏性事件的影响。弹性概念的普及为学者和公共政策制定者带来了挑战。最重大的挑战涉及对复原力是否存在足够的共识，以使该概念能够应用于研究和公共政策环境中。本文介绍了国土安全文献中对复原力讨论进行分析的结果。分析包括引用弹性术语的56篇文章，并在以下杂志上发表：国土安全事务和国土安全与紧急情况管理杂志。我们的发现表明，国土安全文献中的抗灾能力讨论似乎正在朝着抗灾能力的混合概念转变，这表明，如果无法避免，那么抗灾系统将具有抵抗干扰和迅速恢复服务的能力。尽管可能会朝着概念趋同的方向发展，但要使应变能力成为可用于指导国土安全政策的制定和实施的概念，就必须采取其他措施。