resilience

Regional Economic Resilience: Review and Outlook

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Regional Economic Resilience: Review and Outlook by Simone Maria Grabner.

This chapter aims, first, to trace the advancement of resilience thinking in regional science and economic geography. Second, highlight achievements but also some shortcomings past research on resilience, third, outline elements a future agenda suited contemporary challenges. The in-depth analysis literature suggests, that much progress has been made defining identifying determinants. However, paper proposes may benefit greatly from diversifying focus empirical studies incorporating socio-economic differences between urban rural areas urbanisation externalities into resilience.

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Softer Solutions to Coastal Erosion: Making the Transition from Resistance to Resilience

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Softer Solutions to Coastal Erosion: Making the Transition from Resistance to Resilience by Vincent May.

The transition from hard resistant coast protection to soft requires transitions in four inter-related principles. First, the design, implementation and evaluation of softer methods need be appropriate severity erosion risk. Second, costs benefits assessed ways that take account changes levels risk, frequencies damaging events intangible benefits. Third, coastal communities must confident will provide protection. Fourth, systems ensure resilience vulnerable human ecosystems. This paper reports results a series schemes discusses lessons learnt using rather than solutions. uncomfortable conclusion for traditional approaches is people are part ecosystems solution. Sustainable depends upon behavioural all those involved with its management. Softer solutions subject following tests: 1. Is measure able protect against extreme events? Does mean safer? 2. Who loses and/or gains? 3. What timescale over which losses or gains assessed? 4. How does community itself assess risk? it prepared accept at what cost? move? uses these tests effectiveness number small rural sites within important natural resources risk if continues. has been carried out by observing decision-making process public involvement action. Qualitative research used since populations typically number. Six test southern England were used. They include rapidly eroding sandy shingle beaches cliffs, different backshore use property values.There no consistent pattern behaviour six sites. A very role played site manager project team depending local politics development trust ‘experts’. extremes range substantial resistance requiring formal enquiries conflict between landowners, agencies users compliance approach adopted owner erosion. latter time patience explanation discussion alternatives, but more problems also required.Adoption on participation. engineering design needs embedded socio-economic politico-cultural processes. sensitivity processes assessed. In particular, essential identify thresholds demands greater overcome approaches. past, was one, not only, common way dealing As perspective managing erosion, re-leamt.

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Resilience, tourist destinations and governance: an analytical framework

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Resilience, tourist destinations and governance: an analytical framework by Nathalie Fabry, Sylvain Zeghni.

This chapter stimulates new and essential questions. Resilience gains in explanatory power if we skip from resilience applied to specific fields systemic resilience. shift puts forward the governance of a destination. A resilient destination can build achieve resilience, which is necessary increase inbound tourism, ensure flexibility, transition, innovation, trajectory for renewed attrac- tiveness or image. The tourist ability stakeholders accept shocks, rely on planning anti- cipation responsiveness. It simultaneously decentralized pro- cess collective response. process offers several answers, while response ensures flexibility develop- ment required capacity (Folke et al., 2005 ; Becken, 2013). In fact, resilient-based learning point merits be explored more depth future research.

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Collective learning and path plasticity as means to regional economic resilience: the case of Stuttgart

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Collective learning and path plasticity as means to regional economic resilience: the case of Stuttgart by RÁ¼diger Wink, Laura Kirchner, Florian Koch, Daniel Speda.

This paper links two strands of literature (collective learning and resilience) by looking at experiences with collective as precondition regional economic resilience. Based on a qualitative empirical study, the emergence structures in Stuttgart region after macroeconomic structural crisis beginning 1990s is investigated. process building up adaptive capabilities follows pattern institutional path plasticity. The relevance these adjustment processes for performance during great recession 2008-2009 finally shown following episodic narratives interview partners secondary firm panel results.

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Coping, Social Interest, and Psychological Birth Order as Predictors of Resilience in Turkey

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Coping, Social Interest, and Psychological Birth Order as Predictors of Resilience in Turkey by Bengü Ergüner-Tekinalp, Şerife Terzi.

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects psychological birth order, social interest, and coping strategies their interactions on resilience in Turkish population (N = 247). results indicated active planning, acceptance cognitive restructuring, seeking external help order youngest middle child were predictors resilience.

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Macropsychological Factors Predict Regional Economic Resilience During a Major Economic Crisis

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Macropsychological Factors Predict Regional Economic Resilience During a Major Economic Crisis by Martin Obschonka, Michael Stuetzer, David B. Audretsch, Peter J. Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling.

Do macropsychological factors predict “hard” economic outcomes like regional resilience? Prior approaches to understanding resilience have focused on infrastructure. In contrast, we draw research highlighting the key role played by psychological in behaviors. Using large data sets from United States ( n = 935,858) and Great Britain 417,217), characterize region-level correlates of resilience. Specifically, examine links between regions’ levels traits their degree slowdown (indexed changes entrepreneurial vitality) wake Recession 2008–2009. both countries, more emotionally stable regions with a prevalent personality makeup showed significantly lower slowdown. This effect was robust when accounting for differences Cause cannot be inferred these correlational findings, but results nonetheless point as potentially protective against macroeconomic shocks.

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Resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation

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Resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation by François Bousquet, Aurélie Botta, Luca Alinovi, Olivier Barreteau, Deborah A. Bossio, Katrina Brown, Patrick Caron, Marco D’Errico, Fabrice DeClerck, Hélène Dessard, Elin Enfors Kautsky, Christo Fabricius, Carl Folke, Louise Fortmann, Bernard Hubert, Danièle Magda, Raphaël Mathevet, Richard B. Norgaard, Allyson Quinlan, Charles Staver.

Bousquet, F., A. Botta, L. Alinovi, O. Barreteau, D. Bossio, K. Brown, P. Caron, Cury, M. D’Errico, F. DeClerck, H. Dessard, E. Enfors Kautsky, C. Fabricius, Folke, Fortmann, B. Hubert, Magda, R. Mathevet, Norgaard, Quinlan, and Staver. 2016. Resilience development: mobilizing for transformation. Ecology Society 21(3):40. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08754-210340

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Demonstration of self-healing and scattering resilience of acoustic Bessel beams

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Demonstration of self-healing and scattering resilience of acoustic Bessel beams by Giuseppe Antonacci, Davide Caprini, Giancarlo Ruocco.

In optics, Bessel beams have seen extensive use because they exhibit a non-diffracting propagation and self-reconstruction capability beyond obstacles encountered along their path, with an ensuing pronounced resilience to scattering. Whether such peculiarities, characteristic of the Helmholtz equation for transverse E B fields, are manifested by longitudinal acoustic fields is currently unknown. Here, we report experimental demonstration self-healing scattering properties zero-order beam. The beam obtained interfering ultrasound waves propagating vector lying on cone found be capable self-reconstructing large spherical multiple layers.

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Conceptualizing holistic community resilience to climate events: Foundation for a climate resilience screening index

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Conceptualizing holistic community resilience to climate events: Foundation for a climate resilience screening index by J. Kevin Summers, Lisa M. Smith, Linda C. Harwell, Kyle D. Buck.

The concept of resilience has been evolving over the past decade as a way to address current and future challenges nations, states cities face from changing climate. Understanding how environment (natural built), climate event risk, societal interactions governance reflect community for adaptive management is critical envisioning urban natural environments that can persist through extreme weather events longer-term shifts in To be successful, this interaction these five domains must result maintaining quality life ensuring equal access benefits or protection harm all segments population. An exhaustive literature review approaches was conducted examining two primary elements – vulnerability recoverability. results were examined determine if any existing frameworks addressed above major areas an integrated manner. While some aspects model available sources, no comprehensive approach available. A new conceptual proposed incorporates structures addresses at national, regional, state county spatial scale variety climate-induced ranging superstorms droughts their concomitant such wildfires, floods, pest invasions. This will developed manner permit comparisons among units (e.g., counties) examination best reliance practices.

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