, political systems, historical experience, economic and environmental vulnerability, ecological fragility, the types of risks … analyses the geographical, historical, economic, tourism-oriented and institutional characteristics, as well as vulnerability …

reach significant values, reduce city vulnerability and prevent lock-ins in under-optimal situations. …

Which kind of social capital fosters the diffusion of development-oriented trust? This paper carries out an empirical …), and different forms of trust (knowledge-based trust, social trust, trust towards public services and political … the main factors fostering the diffusion of social trust among entrepreneurs are the perception that the local community …

The U.S. system of security law was designed more than 70 years ago to regain investors’ trust after a major financial …

Some researchers claim that diverse populations lead to less trust. Generalized trust is a core value that leads to …. Generalized trust fundamentally rests upon a foundation of respect for diversity, but at the same time arguing that societies have … a common culture. It is the idea that people have a shared fate. Generalized trust rests upon a foundation of economic …

to contribute also an adequate share to the community. In such a situation trustworthiness of a government and trust in a … government is high. This paper provides empirical evidence that trust is crucial for fiscal performance using data for the full … sample of Swiss cantons over the 1981-2001 period. In cantons with high levels of trust, the level of indebtedness is …

There are multiple dimensions of trust. The standard meaning I call "strategic trust." But more important is … "moralistic trust," which does not stem from experience, but rather is learned early in life and is largely stable over time …. Moralistic trust leads people to do good works such as contributing to charity and volunteering time and to be more tolerant …

neighbors in the social network, can exert effort to manipulate the trust of others, and update their opinions about some common …. We show that manipulation can modify the trust structure and lead to a connected society. Manipulation fosters opinion …