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Showing 1 to 20 of 82 for “"Community Resilience"”.
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
The Community Resilience Training (CRT) Project Proposal is a design for the creation and implementation of a multi-level, adaptive curriculum designed to improve community resilience to disasters and other major disruption. Grounded in chaos theory and the complexity paradigm of disaster response, …
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Community Resilience Training Project Proposal
The Community Resilience Training (CRT) Project Proposal is a design for the creation and implementation of a multi-level, adaptive curriculum designed to improve community resilience to disasters and other major disruption. Grounded in chaos theory and the complexity paradigm of disaster response, …
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The Development of Metrics For Community Resilience to Natural Disasters
… often conceptualized in terms of their disaster resilience. While numerous research efforts have sought to explain the causal structure of disaster resilience, the ability to measure the concept is increasingly being seen as a key step towards disaster risk reduction. The development of standards …
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Disaster risk management of interdependent infrastructure systems for community resilience planning
… systems under disruptive events for community resilience planning. The overall research can be broadly divided into two parts: developing a model to simulate the post-disaster performance of interdependent infrastructure systems and developing decision frameworks to support …
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Measuring and Analyzing Community Resilience During COVID-19 Using Social Media
Community resilience (CR) has been studied as an indicator to measure how well a given community copes with a given disaster and provides policy directions on what aspects of the community should be improved with high priority. Although the impact of the COVID-19 has been serious all over the world …
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Indicators of community resilience : a study of communities facing impending natural disasters
… Few studies utilize residents within a disaster community to define the factors that are relevant to their disaster experience especially in Australian settings. This present studies view of disasters places the individual within an ecological system to understand their disaster experience and …
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Communities, Institutions and Flood Risk: Mobilising Social Capital to Enhance Community Resilience
Over recent years, community resilience has been increasing in popularity as a topic for detailed study. During that time, academic researchers have been working to untangle the complex network of social relationships that define the concept. In parallel, some institutions have set the achievement …
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Community Resilience: A Meta-Study of International Development Rhetoric in Emerging Economies
Understood generally, community resilience is the ability of communities to adapt, absorb, mitigate, and recover from shocks and stressors in such a way that facilitates positive future outcomes and reduces overall vulnerability to future shocks and stressors (Adger, 2000; Norris, Stevens, …
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Equity considered infrastructure decision support for improved community resilience to natural hazards
The improvement of community resilience is critical to best prepare communities to face natural hazards which only continue to intensify in both occurrence and magnitude. Communities rely upon the critical services provided by our infrastructure systems (e.g., water, electric, etc.), and the …
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Physical-socio-economic systems integration for community resilience-informed decision-making and policy selection
… change and land use policies. Comprehensive community resilience assessment and improvement requires the analyst to develop a model of interacting physical infrastructure systems with socio-economic systems to measure outcomes that result from specific decisions (policies) made. There is …
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Approaching Disaster Vulnerability in a Megacity: Community Resilience to Flooding in two Kampungs in Jakarta
… disasters is generally discussed under the term resilience. It is a concept that entered vulnerability research recently and that will still need further theoretical underpinning and empirical grounding. The vulnerability context of urban poor can be approached from different angles, such as …
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Design for community resilience in the age of disasters : a case study in Puerto Rico
… and organizations in the field, ranging from community-based organizations to aid agencies. This thesis reveals that although Hurricane Maria touched virtually all parts of the Island, the vulnerable populations were disproportionately affected. In response to the inefficiencies of local …
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Community Resilience, Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaption: Learning with Coastal Communities in Central Vietnam
… change adaptation (CCA) programs to enhance the resilience of its coastal communities and reduce climate risks. These programs have contributed to significant declines in weather-related human fatalities, but the increases in human injuries and economic losses over the last two decades reveal …
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The practice and politics of care : social service organizations, community resilience and the redevelopment of Regent Park
In 2005, the Toronto Community Housing Corporation began the ambitious mixed-income redevelopment of Regent Park, Canada's oldest and largest public housing estate. The community has long been subject to race- and class-based stigmatization, and today is one of the last areas of concentrated …
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Reflective Planning and Design for Community Resilience: A Case Study in a Vulnerable and Shrinking Japanese Village
This study investigates resilience strategies in rural Japanese areas characterized by population decline, demographic aging, and heightened disaster risk. I particularly examine the approach of relocating communities to safer, higher ground in regions prone to tsunamis. The focus is on Omosu …
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Enhancing Coastal Community Resilience in North Carolina: Monitoring Erosion and Nature-based Solution Efficacy on a Fetch-limited Barrier Island
… project through assessments of the island's resilience before and after storm events, as well as an evaluation of the efficacy of these innovative nature-based solutions. To support the committee and understand the dynamic changes occurring on the island, we employ on-demand small Uncrewed …
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Resilience in disasters: a case study of an informal settlement in the Western Cape of South Africa
… to understand the mechanisms influencing the resilience level of the communities faced with disaster risk, which is defined as the likelihood of a disaster having a negative impact on community resilience. Therefore, the primary research question raised in this study is: ‘What are the …
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Shaking ground and shifting collectives: Understanding community resilience in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
… a significant amount of research on the resilience processes and recovery efforts in North Canterbury. This thesis examines community resilience in Kaikōura, a small town and district greatly impacted by the earthquake. Community resilience has been widely used in disaster risk reduction …
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The Impact of Disasters on Politics: How Resilience Influence Disaster Requests and Voting in Communities
… by the state governor. The examination of communityresilience, defined as the ability to mitigate and recover from disasters, remains unexploredwithin the realm of political science. This leads to two pivotal inquiries: firstly, how doescommunity resilience shape a governor's …
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Three essays examining social vulnerability and place-based determinants of health
… planning can play. The first essay focuses on community resilience – the capability that helps communities resist, absorb and recover from disasters and traumas. I empirically examine how well a community resilience assessment tool developed by the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency …
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