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One of a series of reports presenting a methodology to help health planners develop objectives and actions by means of selected health status indicators that may be amenable to health care interventions. Using the algorithms, health system agencies can investigate determinants of health status,...
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As a resilience enhancing practice, business continuity management (BCM) can play an important role in aiding …
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interdependent network conditions that exist both regionally and globally. The notion of resilience as an adaptive capacity … reliability through the lens of resilience from an organisation and system perspective using two recognised resilience … contribute to a body of knowledge encompassing resilience and high reliability in critical infrastructure industries. The …
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Propomos aumentar o conhecimento sobre os impactos da construção e melhoramento em obras de infra-estrutura, nesse caso em particular das estradas, e nas relações entre as pessoas e a floresta. Este tema multifacetado será abordado por um complexo sistema de interações, com ênfase na...
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occurrence of weather extremes into corporate strategy and decision making. The authors advance the notion that a resilience … framework might provide insights into dealing with new types of environmental change. They contend that by developing resilience …
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conservation with development interventions. Particularly, in marginal and risk prone areas erosion of resilience could make … big push was accompanied by reindeer herd accumulation and a corresponding degradation of resilience, increasing the … push policies have resulted in an economic security trap (EST). The gradual reduction of resilience has persisted as the ex …
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"The governance of common-pool resources can be meaningfully examined from the somewhat broader perspective of the governance of social-ecological systems (SESs). Governance of SESs invariably involves trade-offs; trade-offs between different stakeholder objectives, trade-offs between risk and...
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"What makes social-ecological systems robust? In this paper we look at the institutional configurations that affect the interactions among resources, resource users, public infrastructure providers, and public infrastructures. We propose a framework that helps to identify potential...
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"In many fields, policymakers seem to have an increasing preference for simple, large, non- redundant systems of analysis and governance. To address this question, we examine several arenas in which scholars have studied the costs and benefits of different levels of redundancy, including:...
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"The concept of resilience is widely promoted as a promising notion to guide new approaches to ecosystem and resource … management that try to enhance a system's capacity to cope with change. A variety of mechanisms of resilience specific for …, implementation of resilience-based management in specific real-world systems has often proven difficult because of a limited …
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