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resilience in communities. In order to efficiently organize the works on benchmarking and standardization in the field of … communities to develop a strategy for ensuring sustainable development and resilience, establish objectives and processes to …
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The importance of endogenous capacities and government support in the resilience of regions The paper aims to discuss … resilience that enable regions to respond and recover from economic crisis conditions. Therefore, the paper focuses three major … that identifies the different levels of resilience of Turkish regions and the compares the importance of endogenous …
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There is broad agreement among economists and policy makers that economic growth is nowadays largely driven by the capacity of firms to innovate. The financial and economic crisis that started in late 2007 has had a far reaching impact on countries around the world. Spain has been one of the...
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During the last decade a new concept has emerged in the regional science debate, the notion of regional resilience … disturbance does not stand as an obstacle to the region¢s development. Regional resilience is characterized by the capacity of a …, robustness and rapidity. The aim of this paper is to explore the notion of resilience in the tourism industry. Tourism, an …
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Mentoring programs such as Big Brothers Big Sisters of America have been providing positive role models and building social skills for more than a century. However, most formal mentoring programs are relatively novel and researchers have only recently begun to rigorously evaluate their impact on...
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This research aims to investigate the role of communities in disaster recovery and in building resilience to answer the … compute the level of resilience of the barangays.The study found that community governance for disaster recovery seems to be … and reactive. It also found that resilience is built through time, but it may be delayed if important recovery sectors (e …
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recommends strategic policies to embed DRRM into the business sector and the role of APEC in promoting SME resilience in the …
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Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
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factors and strategies associated with high resilience or high vulnerability. The results show that the single most important … strategy for resilience is to have a working and income earning spouse in the household. This is still much too uncommon in …
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The recent crisis has highlighted the crucial role that existing linkages among banks and financial institutions plays in channeling and amplifying shocks hitting the system. The structure and evolution of such web of linkages can be fruitfully characterized using concepts borrowed from the...
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