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River and watershed organizations in the U.S. Intermountain West: key actors in social-ecological resilience
River and watershed organizations are important local and regional actors working toward the resilience of rivers and watersheds. Social ecology and...
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The coupling relationship between urbanization and ecological resilience in the Pearl River Delta
Urban resilience is an emerging research topic of urban studies, and its essence is described by the ability of cities to resist, recover, and adapt...
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Do marine protected areas protect shallow coral reef systems? A resilience-based management approach in Tropical Southwestern Atlantic reefs
Adequate methods to evaluate the extension of global and local damage on coral reefs, and to minimize it, are urgent. The Tropical Southwestern...
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Hazard assessment and an adaptation-based design as a tool for coastal resilience in Istanbul
Istanbul has to deal with increasing water-based disasters due to global climate change. Current studies commonly look for risk assessment models,...
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Temporal and spatial responses of ecological resilience to climate change and human activities in the economic belt on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, China
In the Anthropocene era, human activities have become increasingly complex and diversified. The natural ecosystems need higher ecological resilience...
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Spatio-temporal evolution and dynamic simulation of the urban resilience of Bei**g-Tian**-Hebei urban agglomeration
The continuous growth of urban agglomerations in China has increased their complexity as well as vulnerability. In this context, urban resilience is...
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Embedding Resilience to Climate Change and Natural Hazards in Smart Services
Natural and man-made hazards are increasingly threatening our cities and communities. It is therefore imperative to provide readily accessible...
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Examining spatial and socioeconomic disparities in internet resilience during extreme weather events: a case study of Hurricane Harvey and Winter Storm Uri
The resilience of internet service is crucial for ensuring consistent communication, situational awareness, facilitating emergency response in our...
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Factors Influencing Landscape Resilience
This chapter identifies and discusses possible factors influencing the conditions for landscape resilience. It is assumed that resilience does not...
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Levels of Landscape Resilience
In the second chapter, the levels of landscape resilience are presented and explained: The given resilience describes the natural initial conditions...
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Establishment of hospital resilience framework in urban China: insight from Wuhan City
Since the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) swept the world, many countries face a problem that is a shortage of medical resources. The role of...
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Convergences and Divergences in Rural Community Resilience—Case Studies from Ireland and the United Kingdom
The concept of rural community resilience has gained increased traction among academics, policy-makers and rural development practitioners....
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Landscape Resilience: Conclusions
This chapter summarizes the findings from the case studies. First, conclusions are drawn at the theoretical level with regard to the resilience of...
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From knowledge to action: multi-stakeholder planning for urban climate change adaptation and resilience in the Asia–Pacific
One of the most challenging aspects of urban climate change adaptation and resilience continues to be the act of translating knowledge about...
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Building urban community resilience through university extension: community engagement and the politics of knowledge
Many land-grant universities are examining approaches to community engagement to better align with the US land-grant mission of knowledge...
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Landscape Explorations Between Given and Acquired Resilience
This chapter presents a series of case studies from around the globe. These either take two landscapes of the same type and thus comparable given...
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What Matters for Regional Economic Resilience Amid COVID-19? Evidence from Cities in Northeast China
This paper examines how the economies of old industrial cities in Northeast China respond to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The notion of...
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Map** for Resilience: Extreme Heat Deaths and Mobile Homes in Arizona
YouthMappers help discover hidden vulnerabilities to extreme heat in the face of a changing climate by map** health outcomes compared to energy...
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The Mediatization of the Resilience Frame: A New Understanding of Wildfires in the Spanish Mainstream Media (2017–2021)
This book chapter offers a media frame analysis on forest fires in the Spanish mainstream media. Three of the most important newspapers are studied...
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Industrial Structure or Agency: What Affects Regional Economic Resilience Under the 2008 Economic Crisis? Evidence from Resource-Based Cities in China
This paper contributes to the literature by exploring the role of industrial structure in sha** regional economic resilience at different stages...