Vulnerability and Resilience
Childcare, Vulnerability, and Resilience
... Rising economic inequality has led to pronounced inequities in resilience for children and their families. Statistics bear this out. As measured by key national indicators of wellbeing, many of America’s children ...
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Rethinking Vulnerability and Resilience
... Accordingly, vulnerability – in any discipline – is rarely defined solely in relation to the hazard or source of ...of vulnerability, meaning that the interaction is made up of more than simply the ...
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Vulnerability and Resilience Analysis by Fuzzy Cognitive Map
... Based on the initial values of state variables and power weights matrix among variables, the arithmetic operation according to the procedures shown on Formula (1) is repeated executed to obtain the dynamic changes of ...
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Vulnerability and resilience of transport systems A discussion of recent research
... system resilience including preparedness, response, recovery and adaptation, the amount of published research is still limited compared with that on vulnerability, which is usually more focused on what can ...
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Urban vulnerability and resilience within the context of climate change
... urban resilience has to face up to climate ...urban vulnerability and re- silience in terms of energy needs of buildings and outside ur- ban comfort according to the IPCC carbon dioxide emission scenarios ...
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Vulnerability and Resilience under Effects of Tsunamis: Case of Industrial Plants
... the resilience are still to be developed for several systems such as industrial plants, for ...the resilience is intimately depending on both expected damages level and adaptation ...mechanical ...
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Flood vulnerability and resilience: Exploring the factors that influence flooding in Sarawak
... the vulnerability factors and understand the concept of vulnerability and resilience to manage floods in ...that vulnerability reduction along with emergency preparedness can reduce flood ...
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A survey of the theory and measurement of economic vulnerability and resilience to natural hazards
... The existing empirical studies employ various methods of indicator selection and of construction of indices and other measures. The most appropriate method is likely to vary across different contexts and levels of ...
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Mount Etna Sicily: Vulnerability and Resilience during the Pre-Industrial Era
... human vulnerability and resilience to be brought into focus, but also provides information that allows an assessment to be made of the interplay between environmental, economic and social forces which has ...
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Household vulnerability and resilience to shocks: findings from Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
... their vulnerability and increase their resilience: reducing reliance on imported foods; improving the ability to generate an income; improving education; and reducing social tensions and ...provides ...
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Vulnerability and resilience in crisis : urban household food insecurity in Harare, Zimbabwe
... 13 most of their food, poverty immediately translates into food insecurity (Falola and Salm, 2004). By virtue of living in a ‘purchasing environment’, urban households normally require more income for survival than ...
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Climate risk, vulnerability and resilience: Supporting livelihood of smallholders in semiarid India
... reduce vulnerability in the biophysical domain, with spillover e ffects on en- hancing ...and resilience, most of the adaptation is facilitated and self-governed by farmers ’ human, social, and physical ...
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Vulnerability and Resilience Analysis of the Air Traffic Control Sector Network in China
... Cutter et al. proposed that both of them are related and different in their research on the resilience and vulnerability of American states [65]. Therefore, the air traffic control operation unit should do ...
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Assessing Resilience and Vulnerability in the Context of Emergencies: Guidelines
... Any resilience and vulnerability analysis needs to be conducted with sensitivity and proper regard to people’s privacy and their right not to provide ...
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Linkages between vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity
... of vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity within disciplinary areas, reaching some kind of agreement between social and natural scientists working together on global change on the way the concepts ...
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Resilientscapes: Perception and Resilience to Reduce Vulnerability in the Island of Madeira
... of resilience, some new concepts, such as adaptation and adaptability, have been ...unlike resilience. Without adding the adaptative component, resilience appears to be a sterile concept that risks ...
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Vulnerability to Climate Change: Adaptation Strategies and Layers of Resilience – Quantifying Vulnerability to Climate Change in Bangladesh
... her vulnerability is likely to increase with ...related vulnerability in prioritizing region and also an ex-post assessment of development outcome under climate ...their resilience in the fight ...
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Disaster vulnerability of Emirati energy sector and barriers to enhance resilience
... reduce vulnerability and build resilience for any potential ...of vulnerability within Emirati energy sector, whereas ‘lack of or absence of national government legislation’ and ‘awareness and ...
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Manufacturing Resilience on the Margins: Street Gangs, Property, &Vulnerability Theory
... C. Property & Resilience None of these authors has engaged either gangs or vulnerability theory in the ways suggested here. However, the applicability of these concepts is intuitive. Like all people, gang ...
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The 2008 floods in Queensland: a case study of vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity
... SURVEY OF GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS AND MEMBERS OF LOCAL AND DISTRICT DISASTER MANAGEMENT GROUPS Australian Centre for Sustainable Catchments, Toowoomba We are conducting a survey of Government institutions and members of ...
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