This study analyses social, economic and political ‘lock-ins’ for understanding community resilience and land degradation. The study focuses on lock-ins from within communities, using four case study communities in Italy affected by land degradation. The analysis highlights the complex interrelationships between various lock-ins, and suggests that the communities are on pathways of declining re...

Society is increasingly focused on resilience to catastrophic events. Firms generally observe two forms of economic disruption, property damage and business interruption (BI). In contrast pre-event mitigation intended primarily avoid damage, firms can use a variety tactics once the disaster strikes reduce BI losses by improving stability continuity operations. This paper makes theoretical contr...

Since the late 2000s, concept of regional economic resilience has become new buzzword in geography. Despite considerable attention, a common sentiment literature is that an underdeveloped and fuzzy concept. Therefore, this paper conducted scoping review 168 articles on from 2000 to 2022 assess its present conceptual state. The finds notion well-developed does not bear markers anymore. A framewo...

more vulnerable to future risk. The results further suggest that salinization, tidal surge, erosion, and household location are also significant predictors of economic and human losses. Given the current and projected impact of climate change and importance of delta regions as the world’s food baskets, poverty reduction and increase societal resilience should be a primary pathway to strengthen ...