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Health resilience requires rigorous human rights assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This STG Resilience Paper is part of the Commission Research Report and Interim Progress Report (June 2021) published by Reform for Resilience.• Compliance with human rights is an important element of health resilience, generating popular legitimacy ...
SCHEININ, Martin
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Climate risk assessment and cascading impacts: Risks and opportunities for an electrical utility in the U.S. Southwest

open access: yesClimate Risk Management, 2020
Climate risks pose a particular set of challenges to electrical utilities, who must manage the direct impacts of climate and weather, as well as how related effects might propagate through networks of interconnected social and environmental risks.
Ben McMahan, Andrea K. Gerlak
doaj   +1 more source

Quantifying the transient shock response of dynamic agroecosystem variables for improved socio-environmental resilience

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2021
In classic resilience thinking, there is an implicit focus on controlling functional variation to maintain system stability. Modern approaches to resilience thinking deal with complex, adaptive system dynamics and true uncertainty; these contemporary ...
Jordan M. Carper   +4 more
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Resilience Indicator of Urban Transport Infrastructure: A Review on Current Approaches

open access: yesInfrastructures, 2022
Urban transport infrastructures (TIs) play a central role in an urban society that faces more and more disasters. TIs, part of critical infrastructures (CIs), are highly correlated with urban disaster management in terms of their resilience when cities ...
Zhuyu Yang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A policy mix approach for assessing rural household resilience to climate shocks: Insights from Northeast Brazil

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2022
Climate change adaptation is a cross-cutting policy issue that accounts for a diversity of policy approaches, tools, and goals. Unclear conceptualization and the absence of comparable metrics are challenges that hinder the assessment of progress toward ...
Carolina Milhorance   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Breakthrough of the resemblances and correspondences between resilience and sustainability in civil infrastructures

open access: yesActa Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2022
Sustainable construction has become a growing trend among researchers and stakeholders. Simultaneously, resilience and risk assessments for civil Infrastructures have flourished in terms of importance among researchers, economic sectors, and society ...
Oscar Javier Urbina   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reliability of the Deployment Resiliency Assessment [PDF]

open access: yesMilitary Medicine, 2016
This article describes the reliability of the instruments embedded in a mental health screening instrument designed to detect risky drinking, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder among members of the Armed Forces. The instruments were generally reliable, however, the risky drinking screen (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption)
Samuel E, Simon   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Evaluation of a Resilience-Driven Operational Concept to Manage Drone Intrusions in Airports

open access: yesInformation, 2023
The drone market’s growth poses a serious threat to the negligent, illicit, or non-cooperative use of drones, especially in airports and their surroundings.
Domenico Pascarella   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tiered Approach to Resilience Assessment [PDF]

open access: yesRisk Analysis, 2018
AbstractRegulatory agencies have long adopted a three‐tier framework for risk assessment. We build on this structure to propose a tiered approach for resilience assessment that can be integrated into the existing regulatory processes. Comprehensive approaches to assessing resilience at appropriate and operational scales, reconciling analytical ...
Linkov, Igor   +23 more
openaire   +6 more sources

Can we be both resilient and well, and what choices do people have? Incorporating agency into the resilience debate from a fisheries perspective. [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +1 more source

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