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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Vulnerability and resilience"”.
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Vulnerability and resilience in crisis : urban household food insecurity in Harare, Zimbabwe
… of demographic growth, rapid urbanization and rising urban poverty which characterizes much of Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century, this thesis examines the urban poor's vulnerability to food insecurity and analyses the strategies that households adopt to enhance their resilience in this …
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Metrics of food security and sustainability An indicator-based vulnerability and resilience approach
Food crises and global climate change, along with natural system depletion, placed food security and environmental sustainability at the top of the political agenda. Analyses of the dynamic interlinkages between food consumption patterns and environmental concerns recently received considerable …
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Vulnerability and Resilience to Social Defeat: The Role of Neuroplasticity Within the Mesolimbic Dopamine Circuit
The pathophysiology of major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are poorly understood. In particular, while stressful life events are an important cause of psychopathology, most individuals exposed to adversity maintain normal psychological functioning. The molecular mechanisms …
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Heterogeneity and Female-Headed Households in Sri Lanka: Vulnerability and Resilience in a Transitional Development Society
… in development literature as a proxy for poverty and vulnerability. In reality the profile of women-headed households is diverse; they include, at the least, rich and poor women, aged widows as well as young single mothers and wives of migrant workers, educated professionals and semi-literate …
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The Production of Uneven Geographies: Environmental Hazard Exposure and Socioeconomic Inequality
This thesis examines how environmental, economic and digital change are reshaping the geographies of inequality. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates economic geography, environmental economics and critical urban studies, it argues how space is an active dimension that structures …
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Responding to climate change to sustain community-managed water services in Vanuatu
… this research was to provide holistic, detailed, and integrated knowledge and guidance on the ways in which community-managed water services are affected by and sustained against climate change disturbances. Climate change poses one of the most significant challenges to the world with potential …
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Social Vulnerability in the Wake of 2010 BP Oil Spill: The Case of Southeast Louisiana
… whose residents rely on the Gulf of Mexico and its resources for their livelihoods. Understanding how this disaster has impacted the general quality of life in spill-affected communities, and how community characteristics have influenced vulnerability and resilience to negative outcomes, has …
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Having Your Day in Court: The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment Litigation
… harassment-related factors (e.g., retaliation and objectively severe harassment), as well as individual differences (e.g., affect and employment at the firm while engaged in litigation) in vulnerability and resilience that are the main influences on complainant outcomes. Further, it appears …
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Social vulnerability, resilience and capital in disasters: Immigrants, refugees and linguistic minorities in the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters
Drawing upon Bourdieu's theories - capital, field and habitus - this cross-national study qualitatively explores how immigrants and refugees, who are linguistic minorities, experienced the 2010-2011 Canterbury and Tohoku disasters. This includes their perceived social vulnerabilities and resilience …
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Portraits of Resilience: Same-Sex Military Couples' Experience of Deployment
… lived experiences of same-sex military couples and the deployment process. In-depth, conjoint interviews were conducted with eighteen individuals: five female couples and four male couples, representing four military branches, Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. Three thematic categories …
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Taking it to the extremes: understanding the role of assets in older people’s vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to extreme temperatures
The emerging risks and impacts of climate change and extreme weather are an increasingly important threat to human health. This poses many challenges and opportunities for individuals and wider society on how to adapt. In response to the presently limited understanding of what shapes human …
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The role of nocturnal cognitive arousal in the complaint of insomnia among older adults
… implicate cognitive hyperarousal in the etiology and maintenance of insomnia and suggest that negative cognitive activity acts as mediator between personality factors and negative affect on the one hand, and insomnia complaints and poor daytime functioning on the other. The present study examined …
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The Invisible People of the Invisible Coast: The Resilience of People Experiencing Homelessness to Disasters on the Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi Gulf Coasts
<p>While extensive research has been conducted on vulnerability and resilience with regard to hazards, very few studies have researched the resilience of homeless populations. The Gulf Coast region is densely populated and susceptible to natural and anthropogenic hazards. Climate change studies …
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Linking climate change, tourist destination adaptation and tourist atttitudes : a case study of the Victorian Surf Coast region
… climate change due to its strong link to climate and natural ecosystems. Impacts such as warmer temperatures, increasingly frequent and intense storms, and sea level rise present a range of implications for tourism destinations from altered seasonality and increased risk of fire, to loss of …
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Social resilience of post-earthquake Bam
… investigates the root causes of the social vulnerability of Bam and examines the role played by the evolution of institutions in the post-earthquake reconstruction period in shaping resilience. Through studying the reconstruction process of Bam for six years (from 2004 to 2010) the research …
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The Vulnerability of Northern High-Latitude Ecosystems to Climate and Disturbance-Induced Change
Arctic and boreal regions have experienced unprecedented changes in recent decades as the result of climate change. Increasing air temperatures have led to widespread warming and degradation of permafrost, significant shifts in vegetation composition and productivity, and increases in disturbance …
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Society and nature in the Lower River Nyando Basin, Kenya
… deals with the possibilities of researching and conceptualising society-nature relations in the Lower River Nyando Basin, Kenya with a focus on floods and agriculture. It is comprised of a short theoretical part, after which the subsequent case study deals with the presentation of the …
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Approaching Disaster Vulnerability in a Megacity: Community Resilience to Flooding in two Kampungs in Jakarta
The capacity of a society to adapt and cope with 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 …
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Synaptic dysfunction, tau spreading, and cognitive resilience through the lens of tau oligomers in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
… on Alzheimer’s disease (AD)—the most prevalent and well-characterized tauopathy. Pathological tau species are among the earliest inclusions observed in post-mortem brains of individuals with dementia and strongly correlate with cognitive decline. This work focuses on the role of the …
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Impact of Climate Change Risks on Housing Resilience: A Case Study of Khayelitsha, South Africa
… with rapid urbanisation amplifying exposure and vulnerability to hazards such as floods and heatwaves (IPCC, 2022). In Africa, fragile infrastructure, overcrowding, and unsafe housing intensify these impacts, turning minor climate events into severe disasters (Fitchett et al., 2016; Pauleit …
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