Managing for local resilience: towards a strategic approach [PDF]
, 2013 The term resilience is increasingly being used to capture the challenges involved in managing in ‘hard times’. This article aims to provide one of the first empirical studies of the term’s application to local authority interventions around emergency ...
Shaw, Keith, Maythorne, Louise
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Hospital certification is an external assessment mechanism to assure quality and safety systems. Auditors representing the certification body play a key role in certification processes, as they perform the assessment activities and interact ...
Dag Tomas Sagen Johannesen, Siri Wiig
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How regional integration agreements can foster inclusive growth: lessons from exporting SMEs in the Western Balkans [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2022 Empirical evidence on regional integration indicates that CEFTA’s Common Regional Market (CRM) could have spatially unequalising effects across the Western Balkans.
Avlijaš Sonja
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The role and capacities of large-scale actor coalitions in shaping sustainability transformations
Global SustainabilityNon-Technical Summary Several transnational corporations, investors, international organizations, and philanthropies have formed coalitions to respond to global social and environmental challenges.
Sofia Maniatakou +2 more
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A study of the spillover effects of digital financial agglomeration on economic resilience
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2023 IntroductionDigital finance is the combination of digital information technology and traditional finance. And digital financial agglomeration plays a pivotal role in the process of improving economic resilience in the new era.MethodThis paper introduces ...
Zhiming Zhu, Yuanyuan Yang, Hongyan Li
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An Experimental Approach to Exploring Market Responses in Small-Scale Fishing Communities
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 Small-scale fishing communities are increasingly connected to international seafood trade via exports in a growing global market. Understanding how this connectedness impacts local fishery systems, both socially and ecologically, has become a necessary ...
Elizabeth Drury O’Neill +7 more
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Can we be both resilient and well, and what choices do people have? Incorporating agency into the resilience debate from a fisheries perspective. [PDF]
, 2012 In the midst of a global fisheries crisis, there has been great interest in the fostering of adaptation and resilience in fisheries, as a means to reduce vulnerability and improve the capacity of fishing society to adapt to change.
Coulthard, Sarah +2 more
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Both adaptive and transformative capacities are necessary to navigate global polycrisis
Global SustainabilityNon-technical summary Efforts toward global sustainability transformations risks being undermined by the formation of a global polycrisis, where multiple global challenges such as climate change, biodiversity loss, geopolitical conflict, and pandemics ...
Peter Søgaard Jørgensen +5 more
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Resilience: an all-encompassing solution to global problems? A biopolitical analysis of resilience in the policies of EC, FEMA, UNDP, USAID, WB, and WEF [PDF]
, 2015 This thesis examines the use of resilience in international policy-making. A concept that originally meant an ability of ecosystems to absorb disturbance has not only been welcomed in many disciplines outside ecology, but lately become popular in the ...
Jakola, Iiris
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Ecology and Society, 2017 Understanding the cross-scale nature of how natural resource trading links to local extraction patterns remains a topic of great relevance to stewardship and sustainable use of ecological systems.
Stuart Kininmonth +5 more
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