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Delivering a Multi-Functional and Resilient Urban Forest
Hale, James D.; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Sadler, Jon P.; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4600-4624
tensions more explicit, allowing them to be used to test the decadal-scale resilience of urban street trees. Our analysis …
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The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States
Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Emrich, Christopher T.; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2157-2181
In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...
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Adaptation to and Recovery from Global Catastrophe
Maher, Timothy M.; Baum, Seth D. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 4, pp. 1461-1479
proceed and makes connections to several lines of research. Research on resilience theory is considered in detail and used to … method can help identify options for increasing survivor resilience and promoting successful adaptation and recovery. A key …
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Integrating the planetary boundaries and global catastrophic risk paradigms
Baum, Seth D.; Handoh, Itsuki C. - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 107 (2014), pp. 13-21
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