• (http://www.who.int/globalchange/publications/biodiversity-human-health/en/, accessed 21 February 2018). (who.int)
  • Biodiversity and human health ( https://www.cbd.int/doc/decisions/cop-12/cop-12-dec-21-en.pdf, accessed 21 February 2018). (who.int)
  • Biodiversity underpins the ecological functions and processes that give rise to the benefits provided by ecosystems ("ecosystem services"), including purification of water and air, pest and disease control, pollination, soil fertility, and resilience to climate change. (who.int)
  • Thus the interactions between people and biodiversity can strongly influence population health, livelihoods, and the sustainability of public health interventions. (who.int)
  • Consequently, in order to meet the challenges involved with this rapid urbanisation, including food security, water and waste management, biodiversity and ecosystem conservation, we need to develop a strategic planning approach that will promote sustainable resource management in cities. (sustainability.asn.au)
  • In our field of ecosystem restoration, we talk about patch size and quality, corridors and matrices of green space when we assess landscapes for their ability to support biodiversity. (spiliotopoulou.eu)
  • Using chemical fertilizers and pesticides in agriculture has led to the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of soil health, reducing the productivity and resilience of the ecosystem. (bawden.info)
  • INSCI welcomes fundamental and applied multidisciplinary research, including policy- oriented studies and works offering technological solutions, that investigate the role of Internet for sustainable development, social and economic resilience, collective intelligence, reliable information processing and protection, and, more generally, for a holistic understanding of societal transformations, governance shifts and innovation quests. (anl.gov)
  • Lund University Agenda 2030 Graduate School is a global, cutting-edge research school and collaboration platform for issues related to societal challenges, sustainability and the 2030 Agenda. (lu.se)
  • Building back The use of the recovery, rehabilitation and UNDRR better reconstruction phases after a disaster to increase the (2017) resilience of nations and communities through integrating disaster risk reduction measures into the restoration of physical infrastructure and societal systems, and into the revitalization of livelihoods, economies and the environment. (lu.se)
  • Over several weeks of rehearsals and drawing multiple perspectives (most of which focused on the issues of climate crisis and sustainability), the stage performance eventually ran for four days in a theatre packed full of curious audience. (brocku.ca)
  • His Green infrastructure research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Urban forestry and Psychological resilience. (research.com)
  • The goal of this review is to offer a general overview of multiple perspectives for modelling, measuring, and visualising community resilience derived from related and emerging studies, projects, and tools. (mdpi.com)
  • My teaching focuses on perspectives on resilience (social-ecological, development, disaster, psychological, etc.) and methods for climate adaptation and their integration into local/urban planning. (lu.se)
  • Co-authoring policy reports and planning tools in both Swedish and English, including Synthesis report on ecosystem-based adaptation (2017, Swedish), ECOSIMP report to Naturvårdsverket (2017, Swedish), Ecosystem-based adaptation guideline (2016, English) and Synthesis report on Swedish adaptation research (2014, Swedish). (lu.se)
  • Disaster risk Disaster risk management is the application of disaster UNDRR management risk reduction policies and strategies to prevent new (2017) disaster risk, reduce existing disaster risk and manage residual risk, contributing to the strengthening of resilience and reduction of disaster losses. (lu.se)
  • I use qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse experiential, psychological, and contextual dimensions of Human-Nature Connection (HNC) before and after children participate in a project of nature conservation. (plos.org)
  • The aim of this study is to analyse the importance of resilience and psychomotricity and their impact in the learning of disadvantaged children at a preschool age that are exposed to adverse social and personal factors and to assess the efficiency of an intervention program based in psychomotricity and resilience together. (igi-global.com)
  • I encourage students to apply theoretical frameworks on risk, adaptation and resilience to analyse local climate risk beyond its apparent or immediate causes and suggest comprehensive adaptation strategies that resonate with local contexts and communities. (lu.se)
  • Rather than criticising the "emptiness" of resilience or suggesting a definition, I propose that considering the differences and diversity of ways in which resilience has been conceptualised can provide generative insights for design. (pdffox.com)
  • Ecosystem Functional Diversity of the Circumpolar Arctic, National Science Foundation, EE.UU. (caescg.org)
  • This diversity is vital for the stability and health of ecosystems. (cccmty.com)
  • Our focus on sustainability, inclusion, diversity & equity (ID&E), purpose, and board effectiveness helps CEOs drive a Workforce Transformation agenda. (accenture.com)
  • This premonition is sustained by the overwhelming negative impacts of humans on the non-human natural ecosystem. (brocku.ca)
  • In line with the Health in All Policies approach (resolution WHA67.12 (2014)), public health policies should seek to ensure that the impacts of ecosystem alteration are assessed and reflected in strategies through the engagement of different sectors, disciplines and local populations, as an opportunity to maximize the shared health and environment benefits of addressing the upstream drivers of hazards to health. (who.int)
  • Much of the discussion at Resilience 2014 around the topic of metrics tended to focus on food security and crisis impacts. (resalliance.org)
  • PREDICT: Predicting impacts of future policy-based land use scenarios on Idaho's Ecosystem Services and implications for human wellbeing" National Science Foundation, EE.UU. (caescg.org)
  • ECOSER - Contribution of marine ecosystem services of natural protected areas to human well-being. (caescg.org)
  • By analyzing the economic and human dimensions of the marine ecosystem, resource managers are able to make informed decisions. (noaa.gov)
  • His main research concerns Ecosystem services, Environmental planning, Urban forestry, Green infrastructure and Environmental resource management. (research.com)
  • His Ecosystem services research incorporates elements of Ecoforestry, Forest ecology, Sustainability and Urban ecosystem. (research.com)
  • Raffaele Lafortezza spends much of his time researching Environmental planning, Environmental resource management, Ecosystem services, Ecology and Green infrastructure. (research.com)
  • In Ecosystem services, he works on issues like Ecosystem management, which are connected to Ecosystem health. (research.com)
  • Physical geography, Ecosystem services, Green infrastructure, Context and Psychological resilience are his primary areas of study. (research.com)
  • The study incorporates disciplines such as Remote sensing application, Sustainable management, Urban forestry, Regional science and Remote sensing in addition to Ecosystem services. (research.com)
  • Urban forests, ecosystem services, green infrastructure and nature-based solutions: Nexus or evolving metaphors? (research.com)
  • Raffaele Lafortezza mostly deals with Ecosystem services, Green infrastructure, Psychological resilience, Sustainability and Urban forestry. (research.com)
  • The Ecosystem services study combines topics in areas such as Regional science and Sustainable management. (research.com)
  • So, the mission should be to help ensure the safety, resilience and sustainability of the services and infrastructure that provide, connect and protect people, businesses and communities no matter what the future challenges might be. (resiliencerisingglobal.org)
  • Since 2018 I am Adjunct Professor at Idaho State University, and since 2020 Full Professor at the University of Almeria where I teach Global Change and Socio-Ecological Systems and Field Techniques and Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences degree, and Ecosystem Services and Sustainability in the Master in Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Ecosystem Services. (caescg.org)
  • The success stories of large-scale green-blue infrastructure design have something in common: they consider ecosystem services - the benefits that humans obtain from ecosystems - first and often . (spiliotopoulou.eu)
  • Ecosystem services are the many benefits that ecosystems provide to humans. (noaa.gov)
  • Students examine these socio-environmental systems through the lens of many disciplines (including natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities) and frameworks (justice, sustainability, resilience, and limits) to understand the environment and to discover solutions to environmental problems. (stlawu.edu)
  • However, there are new drivers, in particular the integration urban design, psychological perception of risk, resilience and engineering variables in the design of infrastructure (Torero, 2006), and how the urban-wild land interface and how urbanization of these spaces bring challenges to safety (Torero & Simeoni, 2010) including bushfires and flooding. (sustainability.asn.au)
  • Best Paper Award sponsored by Springer with 300 EUR) "Internet for Survival": How the effective and democratic evolution of the Internet towards an infrastructure/ecosystem supporting resilience and equality depends on deeply intertwined considerations rooted in technological, social and economic sciences. (anl.gov)
  • nevertheless, urban ecosystems contain a broad range of distinct microenvironments and biological assemblages, from remnant natural ecosystems to almost completely human built and constructed environments. (frontiersin.org)
  • Since the human body is one interconnected biological system, physical health is linked to psychological well-being. (theoutlooker.com)
  • His Environmental resource management study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Climate change adaptation, Ecosystem management and Ecosystem health. (research.com)
  • Food Sustainability, Environmental Awareness, and Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Developing Countries provides information on the recent technology, mitigation, and environmental protection that must be applied for food sustainability in developing countries. (igi-global.com)
  • Adaptation is often missing from any discussion of resilience as it is more difficult to achieve than straightforward recovery and mitigation. (resiliencerisingglobal.org)
  • It examined ecosystem-based adaptation and citizen engagement in adaptation as ways of reducing local risk from adverse climate events. (lu.se)
  • As with many social science terms, resilience is therefore a topic of conceptual confusion, lacking a common sense of definition, precision or rigour within and between the many arenas in which the word is used [8]. (pdffox.com)
  • It then outlines a broad human rights and gender equality conceptual framework for pandemic resilience. (lu.se)
  • As a socio-ecological researcher, my research interests focus on exploring the complexity of human-nature relationships, with the ultimate goal of understanding the ecological, moral and psychological dimensions of human behavior that affect the conservation of nature and the maintenance of human well-being. (caescg.org)
  • Depending on the scale of the complex adaptive systems involved, some panarchic cycles - such as those that shape forest ecosystems and the health of oceans - unfold over millennia. (ghost.io)
  • Organizational Resilience to Supply Chain Risks During the COVID‐19 Pandemic. (aston.ac.uk)
  • Closing the gap starts with embracing pandemic lessons, rethinking how a successful CEO acts and embedding sustainability into the organization. (accenture.com)
  • The purpose of this Background Brief is to communicate key components of an integrated human rights-based and gender equality approach to building resilience to pandemic risk at the local level. (lu.se)
  • Rather than focusing on the biomedical aspects of disease treatment, this brief focuses on the wider economic, social, and environmental context within which pandemic resilience is either strengthened or depleted. (lu.se)
  • Building resilience to pandemic risk must therefore necessarily address dimensions of exposure and vulnerability within each of these sectors. (lu.se)
  • His Psychological resilience study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Sustainability and Adaptive capacity. (research.com)
  • Panarchy is an empirically-informed model of the cyclical nature of complex adaptive growth, development, and change dynamics within ecosystems. (ghost.io)
  • The utility of the panarchic model as a framework for understanding patterns, relationships, and tendencies that define life, growth, transformation and death in complex adaptive ecosystems stretches well beyond the bounds of any one discipline or type of ecosystem. (ghost.io)
  • Research along the lines of Holling, Gunderson, Folke, and Walker as well as many others in the Resilience Alliance network and beyond, has emerged from a complex adaptive systems' perspective and in particular, a focus on ecosystems and integrated social-ecological systems. (resalliance.org)
  • What both communities hold in common is a desire to operationalize resilience by applying theoretical insights to real world problems and changing the way we manage and interact with the environment for more sustainable and equitable outcomes. (resalliance.org)
  • Its insights are expected to create a better understanding of this complex socio-technical system we call "Internet", for instance to inform political decisions on the technological priorities for public funding and to drive a more sustainable and equitable development of the innovation and social ecosystems it supports. (anl.gov)
  • These pressures-and the urgent need to create sustainable living standards-are driving a new multidisciplinary arena that investigates how psychological and social determinants of sustainable societies develop in people [ 4 , 20 - 22 ]. (plos.org)
  • His Sustainable management research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of DPSIR, Environmental planning, Urban heat island, Climate resilience and Urbanization. (research.com)
  • Considering these complex and often insufficiently comprehended interactions of humans and the environment is of central importance in the analysis and planning for a successful organisation of spatial transformation processes towards sustainability. (wikicfp.com)
  • The ways in which humans create, record, manage, use and share information are deeply relevant to the capacity for resilience [5]. (pdffox.com)
  • Resource managers consider the entire ecosystem, including humans and the natural elements, when making management decisions. (noaa.gov)
  • Overall, combining experiential, psychological, and contextual dimensions of HNC provides rich insights to advance the conceptualisation and assessment of human-nature relationships. (plos.org)
  • The submissions to the anthology should contribute to a critical reflection on the aesthetic and ethical as well as psychological, political and planning discourses and practices of a spatial transformation. (wikicfp.com)
  • The stage production, titled AnthropoScene, was supported by the "Beyond Sustainability-Radical Transformation Through Systems Thinking" project. (brocku.ca)
  • A round-table discussion program was organized on an alternate day, by the "Beyond Sustainability-Radical Transformation Through Systems Thinking" project to discuss the stage performance and the connection to issues on sustainability and climate crisis. (brocku.ca)
  • Resilience is about a process of regeneration and transformation that allows the ecosystem not only to address the old faults but also, and more importantly, to prepare for new challenges in a more robust and cohesive fashion. (resiliencerisingglobal.org)
  • For example, making the built environment sustainable or green can push the associated industries and supply chains for sustainability because of the innate nature of the construction industry. (theoutlooker.com)
  • Climate change affects the physical environment, ecosystems and human societies. (wikipedia.org)
  • These goals provide a blueprint for sustainability and focus on the promotion of good health and wellbeing, minimizing poverty, reducing inequalities, building sustainable cities and communities, and acting against climate change. (frontiersin.org)
  • Many initiatives oriented towards a context of forced displacement articulate the goal of supporting resilience. (pdffox.com)
  • Examining trust in leadership, psychological capital, and employee well‐being in a cross‐national context during Covid‐19. (aston.ac.uk)
  • But this approach does not necessarily confront ongoing territorial dispossession and risks to health, economic vitality, lives, psychological well-being, and cultural integrity that Indigenous people experience. (yesmagazine.org)
  • My special focus has been to explore how drama and theatre performance can generate impactful meaning in the global understanding of the human ecosystem as well as how to mitigate further climate disasters. (brocku.ca)
  • In the panarchic ecosystem of an individual human life, an enormous amount of growth and change takes place very quickly, and one's potential is augmented or impaired by access to resources which promote growth within and across domains of living such as physical health, social and emotional health, economic and occupational health, and spiritual health. (ghost.io)
  • Human health ultimately depends on ecosystems for elements essential to human health and well-being (for instance, food and freshwater). (who.int)
  • Climate is perhaps the single most important and pervasive factor controlling global ecosystems and human well-being. (stlawu.edu)
  • By contrast, development communities tend to approach resilience from a more human-centered perspective with a focus on livelihoods, risk reduction, and human well-being. (resalliance.org)
  • They have also produced a set of resilience measurement principles that echo Alinovi's call for dynamic analysis and reflect both systems-based requirements (multi-level interactions, rates of change, inherent volatility) as well as human dimensions (e.g., desirability of system states, people's perceptions, vulnerability connections). (resalliance.org)
  • HCI design can also support human thriving in ways that move beyond entrenched individualistic, short-term conceptions of resilience. (pdffox.com)
  • My vision is based on: Improving the social-ecological resilience of multifunctional landscapes in a rapidly changing world and changing the way science generates and applies knowledge to improve the sustainable management of social-ecological systems (human-nature systems) and promoting this change to other academic disciplines. (caescg.org)
  • As the world rapidly urbanizes, human settlements constitute one of the few ecosystems on earth that are significantly increasing in their extent. (frontiersin.org)
  • Yet, urban ecosystems are fundamentally different from their natural counterparts in the dominant influence of human actions, both intentional and unintentional, on ecosystem function. (frontiersin.org)
  • While urban ecology is poised to make new breakthroughs in the functioning of complex, human-dominated ecosystems, the potential to translate scientific advances to practical applications has never been greater. (frontiersin.org)
  • Unlike natural ecosystems, cities contain many ecosystem components that are almost entirely human-constructed. (frontiersin.org)
  • a "new human" era signifying the impact that human activities have had on the ecosystems within which we live, characterized by distinct ecological change. (frontiersin.org)
  • The Background Brief is intended as a contribution to a people- centred, multi-level, multi-sectoral, multi-stakeholder, and multi-hazard approach to building resilience through enhancing the enjoyment of human rights for all. (lu.se)
  • This approach would offer novel and valuable insights to promote the psychological and social determinants of resilient sustainable society. (plos.org)
  • You can't afford to be resilient to one danger (say, terrorism) and ignore resilience to other risks (say, flooding). (resiliencerisingglobal.org)
  • Luca Alinovi suggests we need to measure resilience at the household level rather than at an individual level because it is the interactions that are important. (resalliance.org)
  • Though taking place in different forms between portfolio investments and foreign direct investment, a facilitative approach, in principle, shifts the responsibility of defining and understanding the interplay between investment and sustainability to market interactions: between the investor and the recipient. (lu.se)
  • A prescriptive role, while more vulnerable to the potential consequences of regulatory chill, may be necessary to administering the nexus between investment and sustainability because sustainability as a motivating factor does not naturally arise from the economic rationality that fuels market interactions. (lu.se)
  • Employee experience -the missing link for engaging employees: Insights from an MNE's AI-based HR ecosystem. (aston.ac.uk)
  • Such applications are a test of both the depth and breadth of our understanding of urban ecosystem processes. (frontiersin.org)
  • The UN 17 SDGs can lead to collective success and achieve sustainability. (theoutlooker.com)
  • Through this submission I identify how differences in conceptualizing the term "resilience" lead to significantly different approaches in addressing the problems of forced migration, some of them short-term and limiting. (pdffox.com)
  • While resilience practice is not entirely new (see Walker & Salt 2012) and case studies have informed theoretical advances over the years the wide-ranging application of resilience thinking to development issues, is a relatively recent phenomenon. (resalliance.org)
  • Raffaele Lafortezza has included themes like Mediterranean climate and Ecosystem in his Physical geography study. (research.com)
  • The migration of resilience from the physical to social sciences has resulted in multiple and varied interpretations of the resilience metaphor. (pdffox.com)
  • In the UK, we are fortunate not to witness many severe natural disasters, so our goal should be more psychological - the soft- skill competencies - rather than placing an over-reliance on the physical dimension - the hard-skill competencies. (resiliencerisingglobal.org)
  • Many animals in the industrialized food system are raised in confined spaces and subjected to stressful and painful procedures, which can lead to physical and psychological suffering. (bawden.info)
  • His research integrates issues of Urbanization, Sustainability, Urban planning and Recreation in his study of Environmental planning. (research.com)
  • Home Association for Sustainability in Business Growing cities from within: urban agriculture in inner Brisbane. (sustainability.asn.au)
  • What does sustainability mean in urban watermanagement? (credoreference.com)
  • As cabin fever set in and governments began to ease restrictions, those living in urban areas have turned, en masse, to green spaces. (spiliotopoulou.eu)
  • Even when such aspirational policies and plans exist, they may fail because the tools that guide the implementation of ecosystem-based urban plans are often missing . (spiliotopoulou.eu)
  • The challenge going forward will be to apply an increasingly advanced and nuanced understanding of urban ecology in the practice of planning, designing, and monitoring cities as dynamic ecosystems. (frontiersin.org)
  • The emphasis on sustainability and social responsibility is pronounced in New Zealand. (cursobarbearia.com)
  • ENR 2501 Introduces students to principles from various disciplines related to social, economic and environmental sustainability. (ohio-state.edu)
  • My research is based on a strong personal conviction about the urgent need for a type of science that ensures the social and economic well-being of society without compromising the health and functioning of the ecosystems that sustain it. (caescg.org)
  • The displacement and economic hardships experienced by farmers and their families further deepened the social and psychological impact of the Great Depression. (jittery.com)
  • Social indicators are used to help assess community resilience and vulnerability. (noaa.gov)
  • A decolonizing approach to allyship must challenge the resilience of settler privilege, which involves directly facing the very different ecological realities we all dwell in. (yesmagazine.org)
  • When it comes to understanding the relationship between investment and sustainability, national and international governance institutions take a facilitative rather than regulatory approach. (lu.se)
  • Assessing the facilitative approach to investment and sustainability within the microeconomics of sustainable development policy renders some noteworthy observations. (lu.se)
  • Namely, creating a regulatory and governance environment that facilitates the consumer and producer, or in this case the recipient and the investor, shifts responsibility away from the government or prevailing institution from taking a more prescriptive approach: defining, implementing and enforcing a more substantial linkage between investment and sustainability. (lu.se)
  • Similarly, there is a real risk that in the rush to measure resilience and develop quantitative metrics for comparative purposes, what is actually measured may represent the same things that have long been monitored and measured but are now being packaged in the language of resilience to meet the demand. (resalliance.org)
  • The concept of community resilience receives much attention in studies and applications due to its ability to provide preparedness against hazards, to protect our life against risks, and to recover to stable living conditions. (mdpi.com)
  • However, one must be careful that the "greener products" are not disturbing the natural ecosystem or creating new risks for all the local and global stakeholders. (theoutlooker.com)
  • The potential of the ecosystem is determined by resources which support or impede the growth and development of the ecosystem and its constituent parts, with what happens in one sector of the ecosystem becoming inextricably connected to the health and development of other sectors, each of which is comprised of numerous variables which exist and evolve in accordance with one another. (ghost.io)
  • Sustainable food production refers to practices that minimize the negative impact on the environment while promoting the long-term health and productivity of the ecosystem. (bawden.info)
  • A blog covering the health/care ecosystem and people. (healthpopuli.com)
  • The concept of panarchy arose in disciplines concerning themselves with sustainability and development sciences, and can be a framework for understanding the life, death, and regeneration of forests, economies, and institutions. (ghost.io)
  • Consideration of the different ways in which we might conceive of resilience can inform and diversify our engagement with the issues faced by refugees. (pdffox.com)
  • The Association for Sustainability in Business is creating a space for industry associations to work together on challenging sustainability issues. (sustainability.asn.au)
  • Alexis Hoskins presented on the progress being made by the Food and Nutrition Security Resilience Measurement Technical Working Group that has produced a framing paper outlining the challenges in measuring resilience. (resalliance.org)
  • From farm to table, every step of the food production process has the potential to promote or undermine sustainability and ethics. (bawden.info)
  • The stability of our food supply at the national level is dependent on the resilience of the food supply system (comprising domestic production and imports) to shocks - such as food price spikes, climatic disasters (droughts, cyclones, storm surges etc.), outbreaks of pest/ diseases, and also to longer-term trends - including downturns in the global economy, changing climatic conditions and labor migration from rural areas. (who.int)
  • What is conspicuously absent is a robust commitment to climate action, resilience, and security in the manner urgently required. (cccmty.com)
  • Our relationships and our families are ecosystems, too, and are thus shaped by the same tendencies of any system to thrive when conditions are ideal, to fall into collapse during crisis, to heal, reconcile or move on having learned what we learned, to begin again in the next phase of growth. (ghost.io)
  • The emergence of an ecosystem or a new system of ecosystemic relationships. (ghost.io)
  • In panarchic models, the R phase is marked by a period of rapid development and the emergence of structural relationships within the ecosystem and everything it is connected to. (ghost.io)
  • The rapid uptake of resilience thinking by development agencies and foundations has forced the issue of resilience implementation and challenged the research community to make the leap from theory to practice to metrics. (resalliance.org)
  • In Luca Alinova's plenary presentation he spoke of the very real threat of resilience being adopted and applied in name only, whereby others capitalize on the current trendiness of the concept while much of the same ineffective practices continue under the guise of a new name. (resalliance.org)
  • We collect economic data, develops economic models, and conducts analyses to maximize benefits to the nation while ensuring the long-term sustainability of all living marine resources. (noaa.gov)
  • The relationship between investors and the recipients of investment, just as that between producers and consumers, does not function on the logic of advancing sustainability, but rather economic profit maximization. (lu.se)
  • The Resilience 2014 conference aimed to facilitate dialogue among researchers and practitioners from the resilience research community and the development community. (resalliance.org)
  • Hydrological process research and modelling play a key role in the management and sustainability of future water resources. (copernicus.org)
  • In fact, research has shown that gazing at trees has psychological benefits . (spiliotopoulou.eu)
  • This research supports our goal of maximizing benefits to the nation, while ensuring the long-term sustainability of all living marine resources. (noaa.gov)
  • As a Sustainability Scientist, an important part of my job is to engage with and communicate research to stakeholders and knowledge users outside academia. (lu.se)
  • Business coaches in New Zealand support business people in handling tension, sustaining a wholesome perform-daily life equilibrium, and constructing mental resilience, contributing to prolonged-expression success. (cursobarbearia.com)
  • For that reason, shifting the responsibility to the consumer to fuse a more molecular bond between investment and sustainability seems destined to meet an inconclusive outcome as it saps away the essential motivation to shoulder that burden both materially in terms of resource allocation and substantively as a determination to form a meaningful investment and sustainability nexus. (lu.se)
  • The properly-identified Kiwi spirit of 'work hard, engage in hard' underscores the significance of psychological resilience and perform-daily life equilibrium. (cursobarbearia.com)
  • smart sustainable specialisation, environmental ecosystems through life, and People's Republic of China. (chester.ac.uk)
  • It is a state of crisis that poses severe threats to our planet, its ecosystems, and all forms of life, including humanity. (cccmty.com)
  • Sustainability is a way of life and to achieve it, one must assiduously put effort into it in all phases of life. (theoutlooker.com)
  • A three-step process constituting of modelling, measurement, and visualisation is crucial to determine components, to assess value, and to represent information of community resilience, respectively. (mdpi.com)
  • Importantly, it should focus on people as it is they who will ultimately determine the state of national resilience, and they are unlikely to pay heed to a strategic statement alone. (resiliencerisingglobal.org)
  • An essential advantage of having a complete process for community resilience is the capacity to be aware of and respond appropriately in times of adversity. (mdpi.com)
  • If resilience must be measured to be meaningful to the development community, then how best to measure it? (resalliance.org)
  • Should we measure resilience? (resalliance.org)
  • Efforts to measure resilience are well underway while at the same time there are concerns about what exactly is being measured and whether this shift in focus misses the point of what resilience thinking has to offer. (resalliance.org)
  • Thus the challenge that presents itself is how to measure resilience, if indeed it can or should be measured? (resalliance.org)
  • The goal is a qualitative expression of that purpose so in the case of national resilience it is to make the nation more prepared for, and ready if necessary to adapt to, a range of known and unexpected dangers. (resiliencerisingglobal.org)
  • The concept of Circular Economy has been introduced to further enhance the resilience of sustainable efforts. (theoutlooker.com)