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Identification of the Key Influencing Factors of Urban Rail Transit Station Resilience against Disasters Caused by Rainstorms

Land, 2021
Improving the ability of the urban rail transit system to cope with rainstorm disasters is of great significance to ensure the safe travel of residents.
Liudan Jiao, Dongrong Li, Yu Zhang, Yinghan Zhu, Xiaosen Huo, Ya Wu   +5 more
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A Theory on Urban Resilience to Floods - A Basis for Alternative Planning Practices

Ecology and Society, 2012
River cities require a management approach based on resilience to floods rather than on resistance. Resisting floods by means of levees, dams, and channelization neglects inherent uncertainties arising from human-nature couplings and fails to address the
Kuei-Hsien Liao
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Assessment of residual pesticides and other organic pollutants using passive samplers in Can Tho River, Vietnam, and Cagayan de Oro River Basin, Philippines

Frontiers in Water
Agriculture-dependent developing Southeast Asian countries need to assess residual pesticides in receiving water from agricultural runoff as one of the basis for the establishment of baseline data.
Maria Luisa Baiño Salingay, Maria Luisa Baiño Salingay, Maria Luisa Baiño Salingay, Chris Zevenbergen, Chris Zevenbergen, Assela Pathirana   +5 more
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Assessment of urban flood resilience based on the socio-ecological composite index model: a case study in Wuhua District, Kunming City, China

Water Science and Technology
Global climate change and rapid urbanization have increased the frequency of flooding, making urban flood resilience a critical objective. This article introduces a methodology for assessing urban flood resilience, utilizing a social-ecological synthesis
Zhiqiang Xie, Donghui Hu, Fengshan Jiang, Xingfeng Fu, Rong Li, Daoyang Zheng, Lei Zhao, Jiarui Xu, Xiangdong Yuan, Yinli Bao, Haibin Zhou, Bin Wang, Qing Wang   +12 more
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A refined assessment of urban flood resilience

Shui kexue jinzhan
Refined assessment of urban flood resilience is of great significance for guiding the construction of resilient cities. Based on the “4R” resilience theory (robustness，redundancy，resourcefulness，and rapidity)，this study establishes an evaluation index ...
Yintang WANG, Xin SU, Leizhi WANG, Lingjie LI, Jing GUO, Yong LIU, Lili WANG   +6 more
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Biographies, ontological security and the socio‐spatial politics shaping teachers' mobility in remote Australia

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette, Reece Mills, Terri Bourke, Simone White, Martin Mills, Lisa van Leent   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Systemic Model for Understanding Business Interactions With Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation represent critical threats to human well‐being and economic resilience, challenging businesses to understand and manage their interdependence with natural systems. This study develops a systemic framework—the BioModel—that elucidates the reciprocal relationship between businesses, biodiversity, and ...
Lino Cinquini, Giacomo Pigatto, Andrea Tenucci   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying key drivers of urban flood resilience for effective management: Insights and implications

Geography and Sustainability
Enhancing urban resilience is a powerful strategy for mitigating floods caused by both intensive human activities and climate change. However, existing studies have limitations, highlighting the need for a more comprehensive framework for assessing flood
Yongyang Wang, Yulei Xie, Lei Chen, Pan Zhang   +3 more
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From Green Governance to Biodiversity Strategy: The Role of Environmentally Experienced Directors in Chinese Firms

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how directors with environmental protection (EP) backgrounds influence corporate biodiversity concern (BIO) among Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2023. Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, we argue that directors' environmental expertise shapes firms' biodiversity strategies.
Chengming Huang, Sultan Sikandar Mirza, Chengwei Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate Change Risk and Financial Stability: Implications for European Banking Institutions

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether climate change risk weakens banking‐system stability in the European Union and assesses how renewable energy adoption and energy‐related taxation moderate this relationship. Using panel data for 27 EU countries from 2012 to 2022 and applying fixed‐effects OLS, two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and robust generalized ...
Md Yousuf Ali
wiley   +1 more source