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A framework for evaluating the effectiveness of flood emergency management systems in Europe [PDF]
, 2016 Calls for enhancing societal resilience to flooding are echoed across Europe alongside mounting evidence that flood risk will increase in response to climate change amongst other risk-enhancing factors.
Alexander, Meghan +4 more
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Strengthening resilience in the EU's neighbourhood [PDF]
, 2018 This policy paper contributes to the debate on the implementation of the new resilience paradigm central to the EU‘s Global Strategy. It argues that the EU should clearly distinguish between regime stability as the capacity to persist or ‘bounce back ...
Eickhoff, Karoline, Stollenwerk, Eric
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International Journal of Digital EarthThe Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) project fosters an enhanced, public understanding of the human presence on Earth. A decade after its inception in the Digital Earth 2020 vision, GHSL is an established project of the European Commission’s Joint ...
Martino Pesaresi +19 more
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Evaluation of Urban Resilience Based on Trio Spaces: An Empirical Study in Northeast China
Buildings, 2023 Realizing the building of urban resilience and improving urban resilience has become important contents of urban development. In view of this phenomenon, relying on the framework of trio spaces, which includes physical space, societal space, and ...
Jiayu Zhang, Xiaodong Yang, Dagang Lu
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Environmental impacts of repurposing phone booths as COVID-19 sampling stations
International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 2023 The presented research examines the repurposing of decommissioned phonebooth units to COVID-19 sampling stations as a meaningful attempt to promote environmentally sustainable and socially resilient cities by contributing to a circular economy transition.
Martin Schoch +2 more
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Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 2018 The resilience of buildings and food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) to natural or manmade disruptions are closely linked. The resilience of a building goes beyond the safety of its structural elements and must include the resilience of its supporting ...
Iris Tien
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Ecology and Society, 2020 Disaster resilience assessments are critical to both urban and rural development, especially in disaster-prone regions. The Three Gorges Reservoir Area is a typical disaster-prone area, but there is a lack of research on disaster resilience in this area.
Yuying Yang +5 more
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Professional doctorates: applicability to the construction industry in increasing societal resilience to disasters [PDF]
, 2015 With the increase in occurrence of high impact disasters, the role of Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) in enhancing the disaster related knowledge and skills of construction professionals is highly recognised.
Adeniyi, Onaopepo +5 more
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Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem functioning and services across three different time horizons and decision contexts [PDF]
, 2020 Ensuring ecosystem resilience is an intuitive approach to safeguard the functioning of ecosystems and hence the future provisioning of ecosystem services (ES). However, resilience is a multi‐faceted concept that is difficult to operationalize.
Auge, Harald +9 more
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Economic Resilience A new concept for policy making? Bertelsmann Stiftung Inclusive Growth for Germany|11 [PDF]
, 2017 The idea of “resilience” has in recent years gained a high level of popularity in the formulation of economic- policy objectives. Given the rapid sequence of serious crises, the rise of this concept is hardly surprising. If economic shocks are apparently
Brinkmann, Henrik +3 more
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