Objective: Introduction: Diabetes is a chronic disease that engages affected person for long time and endangers mental health of affected persons. Purpose of this paper is examining the effect of training courses of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) on resilience of women with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in Yazd City. Materials and Methods: This research was a quasi-experimental stud...

Performing City Resilience is a collaborative research project that investigates interrelations between theories, practices and strategies of city resilience, those performance. In this essa...

In this paper we examine how New York City coped with the destruction of its Emergency Operations Center following the World Trade Center attack and how it reconstituted that center in a new location. We make the observation that, although the physical facility was destroyed, the organization that had been established to manage crises in New York City remained substantially intact, enabling a r...

Cities are among the most fragile biological settlements due to their complex internal structure and the influence by different variables. Given the realities of these settlements, in the event of devastating events such as earthquakes, these cities are definitely more fragile; consequently, returning to normal life seems to be much longer and costly. Therefore, considering the importance of th...

Cities are among the most fragile biological settlements due to their complex internal structure and the influence by different variables. Given the realities of these settlements, in the event of devastating events such as earthquakes, these cities are definitely more fragile; consequently, returning to normal life seems to be much longer and costly. Therefore, considering the importance of th...

In order to theorize, manage – even engineer – resilience, it is necessary that the factors that contribute to resilience be identified, and that measures of these factors be validated and exercised. Yet to date there have been few systematic attempts to create such measures. Complicating the matter is the fact that the resilience of safety-critical systems may only be manifested during actual ...

This paper argues for normative visioning as an underdeveloped component of adaptation planning. Multi-stakeholder and approaches to future offer generative moments when creativity can meet the power act required critical, including transformative, adaptation. Including methods with community city actors in planning allows alternative narratives development arise a basis deeper conversation pot...

There is great interest in the topic of resilient cyber systems. However, much of the accompanying research is clouded by a lack of an appropriate definition of the term “resilience” and the challenges of measuring the actual resilience of a system. In this paper, we examine some of the lessons learned in defining resilience metrics and argue that such metrics are highly contextual, and that a ...