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An Integrated Framework to Streamline Resilience in the Context of Urban Climate Risk Assessment
Earth's Future, 2021 Cities are increasingly acknowledged as crucial when facing climate change—and the environmental crisis more in general—, offering challenges and opportunities in terms of both mitigation and adaptation. Climate change‐sensitive urban governance requires
A. Urquiza +6 more
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ACM Transactions on Algorithms, 2009 We address the problem of designing data structures in the presence of faults that may arbitrarily corrupt memory locations. More precisely, we assume that an adaptive adversary can arbitrarily overwrite the content of up to δ memory locations, that corrupted locations cannot be detected, and that only O (1) memory ...
Irene Finocchi +2 more
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Ecology and Society, 2016 In human dominated landscapes many diverse, and often antagonistic, human activities are intentionally and inadvertently determining the supply of various ecosystem services.
Megan Meacham +3 more
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Earth, Planets and Space, 2022 Ocean-bottom pressure gauges of wide and dense ocean-bottom observation networks around Japan, S-net and DONET, observed ocean waves caused by the Tonga eruption that started at approximately 13:00 JST (UTC + 0900) on January 15, 2022. We scrutinized the
Hisahiko Kubo +6 more
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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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Ecology and Society, 2017 The concept of resilience is currently being widely promoted and applied by environmental and development organizations. However, their application of resilience often lacks theoretical backing and evaluation.
My M. Sellberg +3 more
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Ecology and Society, 2017 To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues.
Vanessa A. Masterson +6 more
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Understanding resilience [PDF]
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013 Resilience is the ability to adapt successfully in the face of stress and adversity. Stressful life events, trauma, and chronic adversity can have a substantial impact on brain function and structure, and can result in the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression and other psychiatric disorders.
Wu, Gang +6 more
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Quantification of the Ecological Resilience of Drylands Using Digital Remote Sensing [PDF]
, 2008 Drylands cover 41% of the terrestrial surface and support > 36% of the world's population. However, the magnitude of dryland degradation is unknown at regional and global spatial scales and at 15-30-yr temporal scales.
R. D. Ramsey +7 more
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AMA Journal of Ethics, 2018 When I told people I was pursuing a career in medicine, the statistics of female physician suicide were mentioned. When I professed an interest in surgery, I was told to choose a specialty for lifestyle, because as a woman I would need a career that would allow me to raise my future children.
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