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Resilience capacity and vulnerability: The case of Slovakia
Reggiani, Aura; Hudec, Oto; Siserova, Monika - 2016
empirically versus other resilience/vulnerability indicators. This is the approach which will be used in the present paper …. Vulnerability refers to the degree to which a system is susceptible to harm. In general, the concept of vulnerability has had … units can provide good insights into resilience and vulnerability measures. The country of interest in this paper is …
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"Assessing resilience in tourism : the case of Greece"
Karoulia, Stella; Gaki, Eleni; Kostopoulou, Stella - 2015
During the last decade a new concept has emerged in the regional science debate, the notion of regional resilience, defined as the ability of a region to prevent, prepare, respond and recover after a disturbance, in order that this disturbance does not stand as an obstacle to the region¢s...
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Regional Resilience
Lin, Jeffrey - 2013
In this paper, I study long-run population changes across U.S. metropolitan areas. First, I argue that changes over a long period of time in the geographic distribution of population can be informative about the so-called "resilience" of regions. Using the censuses of population from 1790 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074375
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Strengthening climate resilience in mountainous areas
Kato, Takayoshi - 2021
their exposure and vulnerability to those hazards. The chapter then examines various ways governments and development co …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801128
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Towards COVID-19 recovery and greater resilience in Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
OECD - 2021
This paper aims to provide guidance to the Zuid-Holland province (The Netherlands) and its partners on developing their post-COVID 19 Joint Growth Agenda. It draws on broader OECD analysis of cities’ policy responses to the COVID-19 crisis, the OECD Principles on Urban Policy and the OECD...
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Energy and resilient cities
Sugahara, Masaru; Bermont, Leslie - 2016
This paper analyses the role of cities in energy policies to build resilience and assesses related energy policy practices in cities. It analyses how energy affects resilience in cities from the economic, environmental, social and institutional perspectives. It also assesses the policy practices...
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Resilience, skill endowment and diversity : evidence from US metropolitan areas
Fusillo, Fabrizio; Consoli, Davide; Quatraro, Francesco - 2019
By adopting the evolutionary approach to resilience, this paper discusses and empirically investigate the determinants of the ability of region to resist, absorb, and react to recessionary shocks. The recent 2008 Great Recession has extremely affected most of the advanced economies all over the...
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Analysis of the factors of economic resilience to natural disasters : the case of Los Cabos, Mexico
Montano Armendáriz, Angélica; Pérez Concha, Juan Carlos - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 1 (2018) 1
The objectives of this document are two. Firstly, to identify the factors that foster resilience processes in tourist destinations which are vulnerable to natural hazards. The perceptual technical analysis allows us to make a diagnosis of the economic resilience capacity of the tourism sector in...
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Sustainable Development Integrated in the Concept of Resilence
Bloesch, Jürg - 2015
The purpose of sustainable development is to minimize the likelihood of dynamic natural and/or man-made systems to exceed tipping points, when exposed to disturbances. In effect, the systems are protected from losing identity and integrity. The authors of this paper suggest accepting resilience...
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Fixing Recovery : Social Capital in Post-Crisis Resilience
Aldrich, Daniel P. - 2013
Disasters remain among the most critical events which impact residents and their neighborhoods; they have killed far more individuals than high salience issues such as terrorism. Unfortunately, disaster recovery programs run by the United States and foreign governments have not been updated to...
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