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This study provides evidence pertaining to organizational characteristics associated with greater perceived disaster … perceived DRP strength. Developing an understanding of the types of companies committed to disaster recovery planning may be the …
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[T]he Arizona Fire Chiefs Association (AFCA), Arizona State Land Department, Arizona Division of Emergency Management, and county emergency management agencies have developed the Arizona Fire Service Mutual Aid Plan to facilitate the sharing of statewide fire service resources; and [provide] for...
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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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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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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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