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The awareness of the scope of the environmental problems of the planet has gone global since the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm in 1972. Furthermore, analyzes of economy and ecology were deeply renewed in recent years. They are likely to provide practical...
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average income across countries. Consequently, the paper recommends the need to build the resilience of vulnerable populations …
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structures, different kinds of destinations and different regions. The issue of “resilience” is used to explain the different …
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The concept of resilience has attracted increasing interest in regional economics. In the flourishing literature … potentially stems also from different operationalization of the multifaceted resilience concept; the main difference being between … analyse and compare the results concerning the regional resilience in Italy, over the last 40 years, focussing on the …
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The use of linkages to compare productive structures and discover key sectors is an active focus of research in input-output field. In this paper, an extension of the called multilevel indicators (García et al., 2008) to the key sector determination is proposed. The multilevel indicators not...
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A recent set of case studies on resilience of ecocultures forms the basis for our review of and comment on the … resilience literature. We note the diversity of definitions of resilience and the confusion this creates in implementing … resilience studies. We develop a synthesis view that establishes a framework for defining resilience in an implementable way …
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Infrastructures are necessary to support the functionality of urban communities. Globalization, increased polycentricity, new trends in governance and tightening public budgets have increased interest in alternative ways of providing such infrastructures. One product of this trend is the...
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Recent research on social and ecological resilience has recognised the importance of identifying opportunities in … a livelihood has potential for maximising livelihood resilience and minimising vulnerabilities. This paper takes an … capacities; and argues that these elements may also have potential for maintaining livelihood resilience in the rural area. …
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Notably, the 20th century was dominated by the legacy of devastating global wars, colonial struggles, and ideological conflicts as well as effort s to establish international systems that would foster global peace and prosperity. Yet, insecurity and corruption not only remain, they have become...
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structures, different kinds of destinations and different regions. The issue of “resilience” is used to explain the different …
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