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Isolation, Insularity and Resilience: A Review of the Geophysical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Vulnerabilities of Gran Canaria and Lesvos Islands for Policy Interventions to Global Change

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The dynamic nature of small islands being geographically isolated and their perceived connectedness with global networks complicates research attempts to draw general conclusions on whether insularity leads to marginalization or strengthens their resilience for sustainable development.
Toheeb Lekan Jolaosho, Mazen Marouani, Takwa Boughanmi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of Spatial and Network Analysis to Evaluate Shelter Plan for Tsunami Evacuation

Civil Engineering Dimension, 2015
This study proposes a method for evaluating shelter plan for emergency evacuation prior to a tsunami based on service area analysis. The evacuation service areas are generated using both spatial and network analysis based on Geographic Information System
Sutikno S., Murakami K.
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Stochastic linear programming model for the shelter’s location in small Colombian cities

Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia
This article addresses the problem of locating temporary shelters in small Colombian cities through the construction of a stochastic linear programming model that considers different scenarios where the affected population is a factor that generates ...
Andrés Mauricio Paredes-Rodríguez, Andrés Felipe Toro-Pedroza, Diana Sofía González-Tenorio, Jennifer Tatiana Martínez-Ávila   +3 more
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Social and Emotional Support for Children and their Caregivers Post-Disasters [PDF]

, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to share Save the Children’s responses to Hurricane Harvey in Texas, Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, and Hurricane Irma in Florida in 2017. Save the Children’s response and recovery efforts in the aftermath of these disasters
Dayal De Prewitt, Anjana, Richards, Tony Jose   +1 more
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Security Shaping Sustainability: The Difference Between Securitized and Community‐Based Conservation in Benin

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global conservation efforts intensify, balancing environmental protection with social sustainability has become increasingly urgent. This study employs a comparative case study approach to examine two natural resource management interventions in northern Benin: one led by African Parks in an insecure zone, and another by TMG Research in a ...
Ramoudane Orou Sannou, Christian P. Schneider   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minimum Wages and Homelessness

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Economic theory offers competing predictions about how minimum wage policies might affect homelessness. While minimum wages might reduce homelessness by raising incomes, they could also trigger employment disruptions and negative income shocks identified in the literature as proximate causes of homelessness.
Seth J. Hill
wiley   +1 more source

Back Home Again: LaPorte County, Indiana, Plan to End Homelessness [PDF]

, 2009
The Social IMPACT Research Center (IMPACT), a program of Heartland Alliance, worked with leaders in LaPorte County, Indiana to create a Plan to End Homelessness for the county. Plans to End Homelessness help communities determine and implement key system
Alyssa Nogaski, Amy Rynell, Amy Terpstra, Andrew Roberts   +3 more
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Dynamic Modelling of Critical Infrastructures for Improved Disaster Habitation Recovery

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Natural disasters damage infrastructure systems that support housing habitability, leading to population displacement. Recovery efforts speed up infrastructure capacity restoration and, thereby, rehabitation by displaced residents. Current recovery policy analysis methods focus on individual infrastructure systems or overall community recovery
Benjamin C. Ozumba, David N. Ford
wiley   +1 more source

2010 State of Metropolitan Housing Report [PDF]

, 2010
Examines indicators of housing affordability such as housing segregation, homeownership and foreclosure rates, and homelessness in the Louisville area.

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A Bioregional Approach to Teaching Sustainability and Resilience Online

New Directions for Teaching and Learning, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This chapter describes how the first graduate program in resilient and sustainable communities has evolved over the past decade, maintaining its bioregional approach to distance learning while adapting the curriculum to meet new challenges in the age of climate change.
Laird Christensen
wiley   +1 more source