Selecting Indicators for Assessing Community Sustainable Resilience

Use of indicators for assessing resilience of critical infrastructures

The overall resilience of modern societies is largely determined by and dependent on resilience of their critical infrastructures such as energy grids, transportation systems, governmental bodies or water supply. This is clearly recognized by the European Union in its policies and research agenda, such as the DRS actions and projects (DRS: Disaster-Resilience: safeguarding and securing society,...

Community Sustainability and Resilience: Similarities, Differences and Indicators

Sustainability has been a core conceptual framework for community development since the concept was popularized in 1987, although in its essence it reflects a long history of environmental conservation development, emerged more gradually out of ecological studies in the 1980s, but has only recently, since the mid-2000s, emerged as a focus of public interest as a way of responding and adapting t...

Identifying and Selecting Indicators

Indicators for Sustainable Transportation Planning

work of Abraham and Hunt (1, 2). PECAS combines concepts from traditional Walrasian (general equilibrium) economics with random utility theory. Random utility theory permits the representation of heterogeneous goods and actors with heterogeneous tastes in which the prices of goods vary by zone. The implementation of discrete choice theory by the use of logit equations also permits partial utili...

Resilience and sustainable development

1. Resilience This special issue results from a call for papers to address the connection between resilience and sustainability, and stems from the fact that the ecological concept of resilience has been exercising an increasing influence on the economics of development. Resilience is interpreted in two different ways by ecologists: one capturing the speed of return to equilibrium following per...