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Taking stock: the role of the institutional context for local government financial resilience
Saliterer, Iris; Korac, Sanja; Barbera, Carmela; … - In: Local public finance : an international comparative …, (pp. 319-332). 2021
Financial resilience describes the ability of local governments to anticipate, absorb and react to shocks affecting their finances and service delivery. Resilience is the result of interactions in-between environmental conditions (institutional, economic and social context) local governments...
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A framework for robustness analysis of road networks for short term variations in supply
Snelder, M.; van Zuylen, H.J.; Immers, L.H. - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (2012) 5, pp. 828-842
discuss issues that are related to road network robustness and vulnerability which goes beyond the disconnected definitions … questions need to be addressed: How is robustness defined? Against which disturbances should the network be made robust? Which … factors determine the robustness of a road network? What is the relationship between robustness, travel times and travel time …
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Assessing the importance of risky products in international trade and global value chains
Reiter, Oliver; Stehrer, Robert - In: Empirica : journal of european economics 50 (2023) 1, pp. 7-33
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Road network vulnerability analysis of area-covering disruptions: A grid-based approach with case study
Jenelius, Erik; Mattsson, Lars-Göran - In: Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 46 (2012) 5, pp. 746-760
We present an approach to systematically analysing the vulnerability of road networks under disruptions covering …. As a result, the vulnerability to spatially spread events shows a markedly different geographical distribution. These …
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Institutional enterprise as a compromise : the national organization of science in France
Galvez-Behar, Gabriel - In: Management & organizational history : MOH 12 (2017) 3, pp. 237-260
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Teaching French grammar in an informal cooperative study group through Kahoot
Sabukunze, Igor Didier; Suyoto - In: International journal of learning and change : IJLC 15 (2023) 5, pp. 483-498
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The determinants of local collective action on erosive runoff. An analysis of farmers' geographical proximities in Upper Normandy, France
Joannon, Alexandre; Torre, Andre; Souchere, Veronique; … - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 7 (2004) 3, pp. 302-320
Runoff disregards territorial boundaries, affects farmers as well as other users of space, and necessitates collective action if it is to be combatted. In this article, based on the case of Upper-Normandy, we show that geographical proximity can play a determining role in the struggle against...
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Last chance to travel or safety first? : the influence of exposure to natural hazards and coping capacities on tourism consumption
Nguyen, Canh P. - In: Tourism economics : the business and finance of tourism … 29 (2023) 4, pp. 952-985
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Flood Forecasting and Flood Warning in the Firth of Clyde, UK
Kaya, Yusuf; Stewart, Michael; Becker, Marc - In: Natural Hazards 36 (2005) 1, pp. 257-271
Coastal flooding has caused significant damage to a number of communities around the Firth of Clyde in south-west Scotland, UK. The Firth of Clyde is an enclosed embayment affected by storm surge generated in the Northern Atlantic and propagated through the Irish Channel. In recent years, the...
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IFKIS-Hydro: an early warning and information system for floods and debris flows
Romang, Hans; Zappa, Massimiliano; Hilker, Nadine; … - In: Natural Hazards 56 (2011) 2, pp. 509-527
IFKIS-Hydro is an information and warning system for hydrological hazards in small- and medium-scale catchments. The system collects data such as weather forecasts, precipitation measurements, water level gauges, discharge simulations and local observations of event-specific phenomena. In...
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