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Media Coverage & Charitable Giving After the 2004 Tsunami

Brown, Philip; Minty, Jessica - 2006

coverage of disasters has a dramatic impact on donations to relief agencies, with an additional minute of nightly news coverage …

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Estimated Business Interruptions Losses of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Vargas, Vanessa - 2011

A generalized framework of Economic Analysis of natural and man-made disasters is applied to the estimation of business …

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Enhancing business continuity management capacities in the insurance industry : a Southeast Asian perspective

Wong, Kok Loon; Barnes, Paul H. - 2011

As a resilience enhancing practice, business continuity management (BCM) can play an important role in aiding …. Acknowledging the increasing frequency of unpredictable man-made disasters and natural catastrophes, the insurance industry would …

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Resilience in critical infrastructures : the case of the Queensland electricity industry

Sinclair, Natalie - 2009

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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Mudancas em Infra-estrutura, Agencia Humana e Resiliencia em Sistemas Socio-ecologicos: Arcabouço Teórico e Abordagem Metodologica

Perz, Stephen G.; Valho, Lucas Araujo Car; Passos, Veronica - 2008

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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Beyond adaptation: Resilience for business in light of climate change and weather extremes

Linnenluecke, Martina; Griffiths, Andrew - 2010

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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The Ghost of Development Past: The Impact of Economic Security Policies on Saami Pastoral Ecosystems

Hausner, Vera H.; Fauchald, Per; Tveraa, Torkild; … - 2011

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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Robustness Trade-offs in Social-Ecological Systems

Janssen, Marco A.; Anderies, John M. - 2007

"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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Framework to Analyze the Robustness of Social-Ecological Systems from an Institutional Perspective

Anderies, John M.; Janssen, Marco A.; Ostrom, Elinor - 2004

"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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Reduncancy and Diversity in Governing and Managing Common-Pool Resources

Low, Bobbi S.; Ostrom, Elinor; Simon, Carl P.; Wilson, James - 2000

"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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