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A proposed methodology for prioritizing project effects to include in cost-benefit analysis using resilience, vulnerability and risk perception [PDF]
, 2014 Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has emerged as one of the most widely used methodologies in environmental policy analysis, with many governments applying it in their decision-making procedures and laws.
Hanley, Nick +8 more
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Harris County Winter Storm Uri Resilience Assessment in Harris County
, 2022 This report provides a geographic analysis of damage caused by Winter Storm Uri and highlights the unmet needs it uncovered. Additionally, researchers analyzed the damage from three disaster events—Winter Storm Uri, COVID-19 and Hurricane Harvey—to ...
Kinder Institute for Urban Research
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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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Linking the social, economic, and agroecological: a resilience framework for dairy farming
Ecology and Society, 2021 Agriculture is a major economic driver in Aotearoa-New Zealand (New Zealand), led by export earnings from dairy farming. Dairying is uniquely exposed to climatic- and nonclimatic socioeconomic stressors, which have their greatest effects on production ...
Nicholas A. Cradock-Henry
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Robustness-Driven Resilience Evaluation of Self-Adaptive Software Systems [PDF]
, 2015 An increasingly important requirement for certain classes of software-intensive systems is the ability to self-adapt their structure and behavior at run-time when reacting to changes that may occur to the system, its environment, or its goals.
de Lemos, Rogerio +4 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 The integrity of coral reefs has increasingly been threatened by human development and climate change. As a result, the concept of ecological resilience – an ecosystem's capability to resist and recover from environmental stressors – has become an ...
Ashley H. Y. Bang +10 more
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Resilience, adaptive capacity, and the lock-in trap of the Western Australian agricultural region [PDF]
, 2004 Using the Western Australian (WA) agricultural region as an example of a large-scale social-ecological system (SES), this paper applies a framework based on resilience theory to examine the region's resilience and capacity for change and renewal. Despite
Allison, H.E. +3 more
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Quantifying the Resilience Performance of Airport Flight Operation to Severe Weather
Aerospace, 2022 The increased number of severe weather events caused by global warming in recent years is a major turbulence factor for airport operation and results in more irregular flights.
Xinglong Wang, Ziyan Chen, Kenan Li
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An Analytic Framework to Assess Organizational Resilience
Safety and Health at Work, 2018 Resilience engineering is a paradigm for safety management that focuses on coping with complexity to achieve success, even considering several conflicting goals. Modern sociotechnical systems have to be resilient to comply with the variability of everyday activities, the tight-coupled and underspecified nature of work, and the nonlinear interactions ...
Patriarca, Riccardo +4 more
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Mainstreaming food systems resilience into health resilience [PDF]
, 2021 This STG Resilience Paper is part of the Commission Research Report and Interim Progress Report (June 2021) published by Reform for Resilience.• Food production, distribution and consumption is a fundamental determinant of health resilience.
TAGLIACOZZO, Serena +3 more
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