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Resilience of refugees displaced in the developing world: a qualitative analysis of strengths and struggles of urban refugees in Nepal. [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Mental health and psychosocial wellbeing are key concerns in displaced populations. Despite urban refugees constituting more than half of the world's refugees, minimal attention has been paid to their psychosocial wellbeing.
Thomas, Fiona C, Tol Wietse A, Roberts Bayard, Nawaraj Upadhaya, Nagendra P Luitel, Roberts, Bayard, Wietse A Tol, Fiona C Thomas, Thomas Fiona C, Tol, Wietse A, Upadhaya, Nawaraj, Bayard Roberts, Luitel Nagendra P, Upadhaya Nawaraj, Luitel, Nagendra P   +14 more
core   +1 more source

Conformal Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Cylindrical Geometry Perspective

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Cylindrical reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are explored for low‐complexity beam steering using one‐bit meta‐atoms. A multi‐level modeling approach, including optimization‐based synthesis, demonstrates that even minimal hardware can support directive scattering.
Filippo Pepe, Ivan Iudice, Giuseppe Castaldi, Marco Di Renzo, Vincenzo Galdi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global coastal wave storminess

Scientific Reports
Coastal wave storms pose a massive threat to over 10% of the world’s population now inhabiting the low elevation coastal zone and to the trillions of $ worth of coastal zone infrastructure and developments therein.
Hector Lobeto, Alvaro Semedo, Gil Lemos, Ali Dastgheib, Melisa Menendez, Roshanka Ranasinghe, Jean-Raymond Bidlot   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Behavioral Coping With Food Price Inflation: Patterns Among U.S. Households

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent food price inflation has placed substantial pressure on household budgets, food security, and mental well‐being. Using Household Pulse Survey data, we combine k‐modes clustering and Double Machine Learning to identify distinct household coping groups and examine differences in how households respond to rising food prices across groups ...
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu
wiley   +1 more source

Knowledge Co-Production Practices To Promote Climate Resilience In Global Cities: A Systematic Literature Review. Geography

Geography, Environment, Sustainability
Climate change presents complex challenges for cities worldwide, requiring innovative and collaborative approaches to enhance resilience and adaptability.
Retno S. Dewi, Wiwandari Handayani, Muhammad Z. A. J. Ramadhan, Iwan Rudiarto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatio-temporal evolution and factor explanatory power analysis of urban resilience in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Geography and Sustainability, 2022
Urban resilience assesses a city’s ability to withstand unknown risks. Scholars are not comprehensive in assessing urban resilience, and they lack consideration of population resilience.
Changsheng Ye, Mengshan Hu, Lei Lu, Qian Dong, Moli Gu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Africa’s urban risk and resilience

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017
The literature on disaster risk and its reduction in Africa’s urban centres remains limited, despite evidence of disaster risks increasing with urban growth. This Special Issue brings together new synthetic reviews, detailed empirical case studies and practitioner and expert commentary to highlight the multiple ways in which risk and urban development ...
Fraser, A., Goosen, H., Parnell, S., Pelling, M.   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Modelling smoke dynamics and hazards of smouldering fire in complex large space building

Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics
Smouldering fires produce significant quantities of toxic smoke and gases that are responsible for severe casualties while rarely considered in building fire safety design.
Wai Kit Cheung, Tianhang Zhang, Xinyan Huang, Liming Jiang, Asif Sohail Usmani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing Urban Resilience from the Perspective of Scaling Law: Evidence from Chinese Cities

Land, 2022
Urban resilience, as an emerging research focus in urban studies, is the capability of an urban system to adapt to the uncertainties and disturbances faced by modern cities. Numerical characterization of an urban system’s resilience can be performed with
Chenchen Shi, Naliang Guo, Xiaoping Zhu, Feng Wu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source