Resilient city is an ideal goal and model of urban development proposed in response to today’s complex dynamic environmental changes. In this study, a resilient evaluation framework “social resilience-economic resilience-urban infrastructure service-urban governance” was built upon the multi-dimensionality system; entropy weight method used measure level resilience Hunan Province while obstacle...

BACKGROUND Despite extensive research on determinants of health, there is much less information on factors protecting health among those exposed to economic shocks. Using longitudinal data from the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet period, we examined individual-level factors that enhance resilience of health to economic shocks. METHODS Logistic regression analysed factors associated with...

The concept of disaster resilience has received considerable attention in recent years and is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamic response to natural disasters. In this paper, a new performance index measuring the functionality of a gas distribution network has been proposed, which includes the restoration phase to evaluate the resilience index of the entire network. ...

Theories within psychology tend to follow a Lakatonian structure, sometimes harbouring a strong resilience towards falsification. Theories that potentially could be discarded stay in the field because no strong challenger exists. Popper’s philosophy suggests that falsified theories should be rejected, but in practice psychology is more robust and theories are typically subject to batteries of e...

In the last few decades, disaster risk reduction programs and climate initiatives across the globe have focused largely on the intimate connections between vulnerability, recovery, adaptation, and coping mechanisms. Recent focus, however, is increasingly paid to community resilience. Community, placed at the intersection between the household and national levels of social organization, is cruci...

There is considerable federal interest in disaster resilience as a mechanism for mitigating the impacts to local communities, yet the identification of metrics and standards for measuring resilience remain a challenge. This paper provides a methodology and a set of indicators for measuring baseline characteristics of communities that foster resilience. By establishing baseline conditions, it be...

This project aims to develop a loss model and related measures of community resilience for the Los Angeles lifeline study. It focuses on social and economic dimensions of resilience. In Year 7, the L.A. loss model is being refined by undertaking preliminary investigation of performance objectives (from the perspective of utilities), modeling impacts on hospitals, and integrating with related MC...