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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

genetic algorithms, condercet jury theory, and regulatory regimes. Both empirical data and models suggest that a simple …

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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 …

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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 …-enhancing management practices, High Reliability Theory (HRT) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) to better understand how this …

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Job insecurity, resilience and general health of motor-trade employees / Rosalie Judy Leach

Leach, Rosalie Judy - 2006

of this study was to investigate the relationship between job insecurity, resilience and general health of personnel (N …= 207) employed within the motor-trade industry and to examine differences among the job insecurity, resilience and general … by means of the Job Insecurity Scale (JIS), the Resilience Scale (RS) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). The …

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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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Mechanisms of Resilience in Common-pool Resource Management Systems: An Agent-based Model of Water Use in a River Basin

Schluter, Maja; Pahl-Wostl, Claudia - 2007

"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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Enhancing the Resilience of the Australian National Electricity Market: Taking a Systems Approach in Policy Development

Newell, Barry; Marsh, Debborah M.; Sharma, Deepak - 2011

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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From Innovation to Codification: Conversations with Iskatewizaagegan Elders Regarding Creativity, Memory and Plants in Anishinaabe Society

Davidson-Hunt, Iain J. - 2004

, rooted in complexity theory, have begun to influence ethnoecological and ethnobotanical understandings of the dynamics of … the dynamics and resilience of social-ecological systems. One of the missing pieces in the resilience literature is the …

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