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Assessing resilience to climate change in the US cities
(2012-03-09)
In the face of uncertainties associated with climate change, building adaptive capacity and resilience at the community level emerges as an essential and timely element of local planning. However, key social factors that ...
Bringing analysis of gender and social–ecological resilience together in small-scale fisheries research: challenges and opportunities
(The Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesSpringer Nature, 2020)
Community resilience to power outages after disaster: A case study of the 2010 Chile earthquake and tsunami
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)
This paper examines the short and long-term societal impact of prolonged power outages caused by a disaster, and the way of coping that the community develops. Community resilience is used as a conceptual framework to ...
Establishing Principles for Bushfire Resilient Urban Planning
(2018)
The aim of this study is to elaborate on the built and natural environment disciplines’ potential to develop applied understandings of resilience, using the example of land-use planning design guides in bushfire prone ...
Peasant Resilience: Decolonization and Re-conceptualization
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2021-11-16)
The objective of this article is to re-read and take initial steps toward decolonizing the concept of resilience from a peasant perspective. Resilience has origins in the Western, Cartesian, and capitalist paradigms, and ...
Re-conceptualizing and decolonizing resilience from a peasant perspective
(2021-01-01)
The objective of this initial conceptual essay is to question conventional approaches and propose a new reading–from the perspective of the peasant world–of the concept of resilience. There is a need for critical reflections ...
Economic and social resilience accounts for the recovery of Ibiza's tourism sector
Islands tend to offer almost everything needed to become a tourist destination, such as good weather, beaches and landscapes, but it also requires the provision of competitively priced transport services, lodging and ...
Annual green water resources and vegetation resilience indicators: Definitions, mutual relationships, and future climate projections
(Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 2019-11)
Satellites offer a privileged view on terrestrial ecosystems and a unique possibility to evaluate their status, their resilience and the reliability of the services they provide. In this study, we introduce two indicators ...
Resilience enhancement in the planning of medium-and low voltage power distribution systems with microgrid formation
(2021-01-01)
A resilience enhancement approach applied to medium- and low voltage (MV/LV) systems planning is proposed. In the mathematical model formulation, substations, distribution transformers, cables, switches, renewable generators, ...
Community resilience to tsunamis along the Southeastern Pacific: a multivariate approach incorporating physical, environmental, and social indicators
(2017)
Tsunamic events are a frequent hazard to coastal towns. Despite this, the extent to which resilience models can be applied to coastal towns as well as the aspects that should be considered when doing so have not been fully ...