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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Resilience Planning"”.
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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 pre-disaster risk …
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The values underpinning Iceland's food system risk : implications for resilience planning
… assumes a universalistic framework for risk and resilience -- a trend currently seen in the global proliferation of formulaic, resiliency plans. Ecological resilience is defined as the ability of a system to absorb disturbance so as to retain essentially the same function. In a social-ecological …
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The impact of emerging technologies in supporting urban resilience planning in Canada
… income inequality and political unrest make resilience a priority for every city in the world. Resilience is what will decide whether cities or indeed countries, preserve their quality of life, economic wealth and, in some cases, their political integrity. The aim of this research is to …
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Collaborative governance in regional climate resilience planning : a case study of the Resilient Mystic Collaborative
… of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, September, 2020
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Characterization and Assessment of Transportation Diversity: Impacts on Mobility and Resilience Planning in Urban Communities
… Diversity is a fundamental factor in ecological resilience, and it is recognized as an important property of transportation resilience. However, quantifying transportation diversity remains challenging, which makes it difficult to understand the influence of diversity on transportation …
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Integrating Stakeholder Value Systems into Disaster Resilience Planning: A Value-Driven Framework for Collaborative Decision Making
Disaster resilience planning involves complex decision-making processes marked by constant negotiation, competition, and cooperation among stakeholders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors and at-risk communities. Central to these processes are stakeholders' value systems: the things …
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Linking GIS, youth environmental literacy, and city government functions to define and catalyze community heat resilience planning in Roanoke, VA
… discriminatory mortgage lending schemes and planning practices that targeted communities of color have intensified that issue, endangering the health and well-being of marginalized neighborhoods to this day. Although generating feasible design solutions to mitigate the impact of heat in urban …
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Planning autonomous evacuation for access and flood resilience
Resilience planning has been an increasing topic of discussion, with the shifting attitude toward an adaptive approach where landscapes serve a multitude of functions. Cities like Boston are at the forefront in resilience planning with initiatives such as the Climate Ready Boston. The history-rich …
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Incorporating Wider Infrastructure Disruption in Urban Flooding Resilience Investments
Resilience planning for critical infrastructure (CI) is essential for mitigating disruptions caused by natural hazards, particularly in flood-prone urban areas. This research explores the application of resilience concepts, CI interdependency models, and quantitative assessment frameworks to …
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Learning through competition : resilience on the Jersey Shore after Rebuild By Design
… field's design competition model as a tool for resilience planning. Competitions promise to yield creative design ideas that would not come to light through traditional planning processes, and to foster public interest and support for investment in climate resilience measures. Little research …
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A Just Transition Framework for Resilience - Evaluating Strategies for Seattle’s Duwamish Valley Resilience District
… justice within the emerging Duwamish Valley Resilience District in Seattle, Washington. The Duwamish Valley is a legacy industrial area and environmental justice community facing cumulative pollution burdens and increasing climate impacts. The Resilience District aims to pilot policies, …
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Redesign, redeploy, and re-envision urban corporate headquarters : Amazon's Seattle campus case study
… that continues to shape and reshape physical planning and urban morphologies of cities. This thesis focuses on corporate headquarters in an urban environment where the main campus is physically located in the downtown core or near the central business district. Using Amazon campus in Seattle …
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The Mangrove Mosaic: An Ecological Landscape Design Strategy for Everglades City's Climate Adaptation and Phased Transition Amidst Sea-level Rise
… have significant potential to strengthen climate resilience in vulnerable coastal communities by protecting the coastline and adapting to rising sea levels. To explore ways to enhance the unique capabilities of mangroves, an action plan was implemented in Everglades City, Florida, chosen as a …
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Examining sources of ecological resilience to climate change for restoration planning
… change impacts. Restoring natural sources of resilience is believed to be an effective way to build adaptive capacity to climate change. There are however many questions surrounding the pragmatic application of resilience theories. One such barrier is identifying what factors within a system …
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Calculating the Value of Nature & The Cost of Hurricane Harvey: Leveraging Eco-Adaptation Valuation in American Policy & Practice
… adaptation (EbA) in order to leverage effective resilience planning decisions. The goal of this research is to a) show that proactive, land-based adaptation is more cost-effective than reactive mitigation in resilience projects (i.e. EbA is more beneficial than grey infrastructure) and b) provide …
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Seismic Resilience of Rail-Truck Intermodal Freight Transportation Networks
… a framework for assessing intermodal network resilience incorporating key component level input models is lacking in the literature. This study introduces a framework for quantifying the time evolving functionality and consequently resilience of rail-truck intermodal freight transportation …
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Exploring Power in the Theory and Practice of Resilience
… is accounted for in the theory and practice of resilience. Beginning with a critical assessment of the social ecological systems (SES) perspective that underpins much of the theory and study of resilience, this thesis develops a framework, based on Gaventa’s powercube, for understanding power …
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Analysis of Variability in Atmospheric River Characteristics in New Zealand from 1940 through 2023
… precipitation, highlight the importance of resilience planning and adaptive decision-making.
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Understanding the Impacts of Extreme Weather on the Power Transmission Infrastructure: A Machine Learning Approach to Quantifying Risks and Enhancing Grid Resilience
<p>This doctoral dissertation focuses on the resilience of power transmission infrastructure in tropical coastal environments, particularly in the face of extreme weather events such as hurricanes. The research is anchored on the case of the passage of Hurricane Maria in the Island of Puerto Rico …
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Advancing combined water supply and demand planning and management under climatic and socio-economic change
… United States, water utilities are tasked with planning and managing an increasingly complex water system to meet key objectives such as water security, drought resilience, affordability, and equitable access to water. However, they still often rely on simple assumptions to model their water …
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