A Composite Resilience Index (CRI) for Developing Resilience and Sustainability in University Towns

Developing and measuring resilience for population health.

Developing A Model of Iranian Family Resilience: A Qualitative Research

Background: Family faces different hardships and challenges that are such stressful that can destroy it. No doubt that we need to protect and last family. So, this research aims at developing a local model for family resilience. Methods: To do so, at primer level 13 couples who qualified the criteria, were selected through purpose-focused, available, and voluntary sampling method. In order to i...

A New Index for Quantitative Assessment of ‎Distribution Network Resilience in the Presence of Distributed ‎Generations

Resilience is defined as the system ability to keep an acceptable performance level against a sever disturbance and to return to a stable condition in a suitable time. Occurrence of inconvenient weather conditions and natural disasters, which are growing in number and severity during the last years, has always led to damages and wide outage throughout the distribution network. Therefore the ass...

Vulnerability and resilience: Coalescing or paralleling approaches for sustainability science?

Vulnerability and resilience constitute different but overlapping research themes embraced by sustainability science. As practiced within this science, the two research themes appear to coalesce around one of the foundational pivots of sustainability, the coupled human–environment system. They differ in regard to their attention to two other pivots, environmental services and the tradeoffs of t...

Hydropower and sustainability: resilience and vulnerability in China's powersheds.

Large dams represent a whole complex of social, economic and ecological processes, perhaps more than any other large infrastructure project. Today, countries with rapidly developing economies are constructing new dams to provide energy and flood control to growing populations in riparian and distant urban communities. If the system is lacking institutional capacity to absorb these physical and ...