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habitation of at-risk areas, it is important to understand people's resilience to them. We quantify resilience by estimating how … exhibit less resilience. We find no evidence that existing indices of community resilience moderate impacts. Our conclusion is …
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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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model to assess the resilience of the participating cities to climate change caused by sea level rise and riverine flooding …. The resilience model is designed to integrate physical, economic, health, social and organizational impacts of climate … for use in the resilience simulator. Basic population data, disease burden and physical conditions are integrated in the …
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Disasters are unpredictable events that have catastrophic impacts. There is now a focus on disaster resilience and … capacity building in the recovery of the community. Resilience literature also suggests a staged model of disaster impacts and … likelihood of staged manifestations of resilience. It also points to a potentially important link between place-based social …
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which residents perceived as supporting community resilience to disaster. There is a gap in this research area centred in … the form of an increased incidence of flooding, an urgent need exists to examine the factors that confer resilience to … complexity of community resilience and its interrelationship with individual resilience, a multi-method approach was used: a …
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Despite the regularity of disasters, social science has only begun to generate replicable knowledge about the factors which facilitate post-crisis recovery. Building on the broad variation in recovery rates within disaster-affected cities, I investigate the ability of Kobe’s nine wards to...
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unnoticed and that seem central to understanding these two parishes’ levels of vulnerability and resilience. It is our … vulnerability and resilience to specific and recurrent threats emerge. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014 …
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In this article, disasters are understood as processes that have different impacts on social routines in terms of scale, scope and duration. The extent of adaptive processes in society can provide the ground for a rough classification of disaster types. Such classification has, on the one hand,...
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-level resilience. The authors define disaster entrepreneurship as attempts by the private sector to create or maintain value during and … examples to conceptualize how these responses improve community resilience by filling critical resource voids in the aftermath … emergence. The authors formulate proposition regarding how each of the approaches is related to community-level resilience …
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