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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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practical ways that policy makers can take up the systems challenge. We focus on resilience thinking, and the use of influence … resilience of the Australian National Electricity Market. We stress the need for the electricity sector to prepare for the …
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