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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Resilience Strategies"”.
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Overcoming the Odds: An Exploration of Resilience Strategies Used by Female Superintendents in School Districts in Georgia
… in Georgia to better understand the role of resilience when faced with adversity. The researcher utilized a mixed method design to determine the strategies employed by female superintendents to successfully overcome adversity and become more resilient. The experiences of female …
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Pharmaceutical supply chain resilience. An exploratory analysis of vulnerabilities and resilience strategies in the face of dynamic disruptions in the UK pharmaceutical supply chain
… impact of dynamic disruptions and examine how resilience strategies have were employed to reduce the effects of these disruptions. The Complex Adaptive System (CAS) theory was used as a framework in an exploratory research design using mixed-methods. The qualitative data were gathered through …
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An Analysis of crop farmer's resilience to climate change in the Thulamela Local Municipality of Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… of climate change, this study sought to assess resilience strategies that have been adopted by farmers to mitigate against the effects of climate change in the Thulamela Local Municipality. A mixed research design was used in this study. The simple random sampling techniques was used to select a …
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Stigmatisation processes and populations’ responses in turbulent environments: A multi-site case study of the Hazaras in Quetta, Pakistan and the Afro-descendants in Cartagena, Colombia
… through absorptive, adaptive and transformative resilience strategies at the individual and community levels. In addition, it also explores how these strategies differ or overlap due to the differing historical, cultural, and socio-political contexts of each community. Utilising constructivist …
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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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Resilience as organicist metaphor in OneNYC : the plan for a strong and just city.
… analyzes the discursive and material effects of resilience as organicist metaphor in One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City (OneNYC). The resilience metaphor's form and function is inherently conservative, constraining the vision of an ecologically just NYC within broader discourses of …
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Voces Silenciadas: Victimización Infantil en La Literatura y El Cine Contemporáneos
… Elisa K). I examine power dynamics, trauma, and resilience strategies by employing theoretical insights from Judith Herman, Martha Nussbaum, Pierre Bourdieu, Sarah Thomas, and David Finkelhor.This dissertation highlights the critical role of cultural narratives in shedding light on child …
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FReAK: fault injection based resilience assessment of Kubernetes
… This underscores the necessity for thorough resilience testing. Resilience assessment of Kubernetes, the most widely adopted container orchestrator, using nearly 12000 fault injections in the control plane of Kubernetes performed using FReAK, an automated fault injector, is presented in this …
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Cultural Landscapes and Adaptation: Identifying the Role of Civic Engagement and Cultural Heritage in Coastal Adaptation Planning
… developing and implementing local adaptation and resilience strategies. Largely absent from this conversation is, however, the cultural heritage of the coast-- the places of local identity, meaning and history. To address this shortcoming, the following study assesses the role of cultural heritage …
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Food grows where water flows : securing water for agricultural production in a drought-stricken California
… agriculture, it seems wise to work on developing resilience strategies for this industry. Most research on these topics has been focused on generating high-tech systems that require considerable amounts of energy and financial resources. However, the reality is that countries facing the biggest …
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Supply chain resilience : a case study analysis of a supply network in a developing country context
In recent years, building Supply Chain Resilience (SCRES) has gained considerable interest as the best way firms can face up to disruptions and gain a competitive advantage. The need for more empirical work on SCRES is well expressed in the literature, but there are few prior empirical studies on …
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Understanding COVID-19 Induced Responses for Individuals and Businesses: Changes in Human Mobility Patterns and Resilience Tactics by Small Food Businesses
… effects on urban mobility, food access, and resilience. This dissertation is driven by the overarching question: How has the COVID-19 pandemic reshaped individual's mobility patterns and affected their food access, as well as small businesses' resilience tactics? To answer this, the study …
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The Critique of Everyday Drought: A Feminist Decolonial Analysis of Hydro-Climate Policies in Cape Town, South Africa
… with global finance through climate/water resilience strategies foregrounds the experiences of women organizing for water justice in the underserviced margins of the city. To do so, I adopted a collaborative feminist approach combining qualitative field research with critical policy …
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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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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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From toots to returns: a thesis on financing climate adaptation via nature-based solutions in South Africa
… imperative for timely and effective climate resilience strategies. Given the inadequate public and international financing for adaptation, there is therefore an urgent need to tap into alternative sources, particularly those from the private sector. Nature-based solutions (NbSs) encompass …
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Managing Uncertainty in Young-Onset Parkinson's Disease
… larger processes of adjusting to, and building resilience to, uncertainty resulting from the disease; this uncertainty was rooted in one’s identity and in one’s ability to function. Resulting from this uncertainty was a perception of having lost control over one’s body and one’s life. The …
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“The Journey of Relocation,” A Reflective Autoethnography, Digital Story Telling, and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada
… and labor inequities intersect with resilience strategies such as cultural preservation, digital activism, and transnational kinship. It critiques Canada’s multiculturalism as a contested ideal, exposing disparities between institutional rhetoric and migrants’ encounters with racism, …
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Impact of Climate Change Risks on Housing Resilience: A Case Study of Khayelitsha, South Africa
… explore how climate change risks affect housing resilience in Khayelitsha. Using semi-structured interviews and academic literature as secondary data, it examines stakeholder experiences, institutional responses, and adaptation and mitigation challenges. The methodology ensures contextual depth, …
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Understanding entrepreneurial resilience development within institutional constraints: a case of Ghana.
… by exploring how entrepreneurs developed resilience within institutional constraints at the lived experience level. This is a qualitative research based on several assumptions of the phenomenological paradigm. The research describes the experiences of thirty-four participants - …
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