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Assessing adaptation to climate change and its costs in a carbon-constrained world
Costa, Luís Fílípe Carvalho da - 2013
, Vulnerability … of high adaptive capacity. This concept was further investigated through a review of vulnerability assessments regarding …
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A conceptual framework for understanding resilience of construction SMEs to extreme weather events
Wedawatta, Gayan; Ingirige, Bingunath - In: Built Environment Project and Asset Management 6 (2016) 4, pp. 428-443
, where resilience was seen as a collective effect of vulnerability, coping strategies, and coping capacities of SMEs …
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Climate change projections for Algeria: the 2030 water sector development strategy
Bouregaa, Tarek - In: foresight 25 (2022) 4, pp. 516-534
Purpose The first aim of this study is to show the impact of global warming on temperature and precipitation changes in Algeria. The second objective is to exhibit the strategy planned by the country to mitigate these effects on water resources in the future. Design/methodology/approach This...
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Evolution of modern disaster management
Sawalha, Ihab Hanna - In: foresight 25 (2023) 6, pp. 808-820
Purpose This study aims at investigating the evolution of disaster management by identifying the different phases it has gone through over time, and laying a ground for the next generation of disaster studies that focus on value-creating and value-adding activities. Design/methodology/approach...
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Financial vulnerability and risks to growth in emerging markets
Acharya, Viral V.; Bhadury, Soumya; Surti, Jay - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241541
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COVID-19, race, and redlining
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244006
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Health Expenditure Financing as Incentive for Participation in ROSCAs
Raccanello, Kristiano; Anand, Jayant - In: REVISTA DESARROLLO Y SOCIEDAD (2009)
Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) are a common informal saving method recognized as a social protection system that can be used to deal with the monetary consequences of different types of economic shocks. This paper tests the hypothesis that current participation in ROSCAs will...
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Vulnerability and trust in leader-follower relationships
Nienaber, Ann-Marie; Hofeditz, Marcel; Romeike, Philipp … - In: Personnel Review 44 (2015) 4, pp. 567-591
Purpose – Vulnerability is a concept that lies at the core of the most prevalent academic trust definitions …. Accordingly, a vast amount of scholars refers to vulnerability when studying trust. Surprisingly, there is almost no conceptual … nor empirical work explicitly directed at understanding vulnerability itself. The purpose of this paper is to summarize …
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Transparency of hope
Hartman, Anna E. - In: Marketing Intelligence & Planning 34 (2016) 7, pp. 943-963
the understanding of consumer vulnerability through an intersectional view of global reproductive service consumption …
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Managing adversity: understanding some dimensions of organizational resilience
Sawalha, Ihab Hanna Salman - In: Management Research Review 38 (2015) 4, pp. 346-366
Purpose – This study aims to explore how insurance organisations interpret organisational resilience; to identify potential objectives, elements and practices of organisational resilience within insurance organisations; and to investigate the impact of culture on resilience....
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