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Disaster education in the UK [PDF]

, 2011
The seminar series brought together emergency management specialists and educationalists to explore how disaster management knowledge, innovation and education can contribute to building a culture of safety and resilience in the UK.
Collins, Andrew, Fordham, Maureen, Hobbs, Brian, Manyena, Bernard, Okada, Norio, Rawlinson, Steve, Shiroshita, Hideyuki, Twigg, John   +7 more
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Translating Ecological Integrity terms into operational language to inform societies

, 2018
It is crucial that societies are informed on the risks of impoverished ecosystem health for their well-being. For this purpose, Ecological Integrity (EI) is a useful concept that seeks to capture the complex nature of ecosystems and their interaction ...
de Juan, Silvia, Hewitt, Judi, Subida, Maria Dulce, Thrush, Simon   +3 more
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Hybrid threats and societal resilience

Hybrid conflict is said to exist when certain, often non-military instruments of power are orchestrated and strategically deployed as weapons, without this amounting to armed conflict. Examples of such instruments include political subversion, cyber activities, disinformation, economic destabilisation, corrupt financial practices and actual attacks on ...
Schuwer, H.J.J., Broeks, J., Graaf, B. de, Groot, J. de, Haaf, T. ten, Lanschot, N. van, Marhold, A.A., Osinga, F.P.B., Sibgatullina, G., Teer, J., Zandee, D., Zoest, A. van, Bakker, E., Boekestijn, A.J., Casteleijn, L.F.F., Demmers, J., Feith, P.C., Starink, D., Jagt, H. van der   +18 more
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Aspirations versus adaptive achievements in the face of climate change in Sri Lanka

npj Climate Action
This research explores the linkages between threat perception and adaptive behaviour in the face of climate change in Galle, Sri Lanka. We use an analytical framework to analyse the complexity of aspiration versus adaptive practices, centring around the ...
Julia van den Berg, Bishawjit Mallick
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Exploring opportunities around climate-smart breeding for future food and nutrition security [PDF]

, 2019
There is a 95% chance that warming will exceed 2°C by the end of the century (Raftery et al. 2017). Global crop productivity is projected to fall by 5-10 % per degree of warming (Challinor et al.
Balié, Jean, Cramer, Laura, Friedmann, Michael, Gotor, Elisabetta, Jones, Christopher S., Kozicka, Marta, Kruseman, Gideon K., Notenbaert, An Maria Omer, Place, Frank, Rebolledo, María Camila, Thornton, Philip K., Wiebe, Keith   +11 more
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First Steps in the Development of a Multilevel Model of Resilience for the Czech Attitude Barometer Panel Survey (2024–2027)

Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philosophica et Historica
This paper presents a multilevel model of resilience for testing with the Czech Attitude Barometer panel survey (CAB, 2024–2027). Individual resilience is defined using the Brief Resilience Scale.
Pat Lyons, Petr Lupač
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Antagonism, Conflictuality and Resilience: A New Model of Societal Radicalisation

Journal for Deradicalization, 2019
This paper proposes that, instead of framing radicalisation as a process undergone by individuals, society’s political sphere as a whole should be be considered as a site of radicalisation: a social setting built on discourses which can themselves be ...
Phil Edwards
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Advancing the understanding of adaptive capacity of social‐ecological systems to absorb climate extremes

, 2020
Bahn, M., Bardgett, R., Erb, K., Giamberini, M., Lavorel, S., Rammig, A., Reichstein, M., Thonicke, K., Vollan, B.   +8 more
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Modelling Climate and Societal Resilience in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Last Millennium. [PDF]

Hum Ecol Interdiscip J, 2018
Xoplaki E, Luterbacher J, Wagner S, Zorita E, Fleitmann D, Preiser-Kapeller J, Sargent AM, White S, Toreti A, Haldon JF, Mordechai L, Bozkurt D, Akçer-Ön S, Izdebski A.   +13 more
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Indigenous communities, disasters, and disaster research: surviving disaster research on, with and by Maori [PDF]

This paper presents insights into the impact on Maori of the Christchurch earthquakes, including the role of Indigenous Knowledge (Matauranga Maori) in disasters, and the role of Indigenous culture in the response phases of disasters.
Simon Lambert
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