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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 ...
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 ...
A Community Disaster Resilience Index for Chile
(2023)
Although Chile is one of the countries most exposed to natural hazards, to date there is no national index that shows the differences in resilience levels within the country. This study develops a community resilience index ...
Seismic resilience assessment and adaptation of the Northern Chilean power system
(IEEE Computer Society, 2018)
Even though the concept of resilience is becoming
widely used in electric power systems, there is no consensus on
how to systematically model or quantify it. This article begins by
proposing a classification for different ...
Resilience in cogeneration systems: Metrics for evaluation and influence of design aspects
(2021-08-01)
Energy systems are part of the critical infrastructures, and therefore any dysfunctionality can cause reactions in crucial societal fields. The growth of unexpected events is affecting these systems and exposing their ...
Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners’ frames and practices
(Elsevier, 2015)
There is a growing use of resilience ideas within the disaster risk management literature and policy
domain. However, few empirical studies have focused on how resilience ideas are conceptualized by
practitioners, as ...
Design Of Sustainable And Resilient Eco-Industrial Parks By Means Of Optimization ToolsDESIGN OF SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT ECO-INDUSTRIAL PARKS BY MEANS OF OPTIMIZATION TOOLSDesign of sustainable and resilient eco-industrial parks by means of optimizatión tools
(2019)
Nowadays, the increase in the industrial production is causing environmental problems when appropriate planning and control are absent. To overcome this situation, the Eco- Industrial Parks (EIPs) arise as a new way to ...
Assessing the contribution of climate-smart agricultural practices to the resilience of maize farmers in Bungoma County, Kenya
(African Association of Agricultural Economists, 2022)