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Climate change vulnerability in urban slum communities: Investigating household adaptation and decision-making capacity in the Indian Himalaya
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Climate change is predicted to have severe impacts on mountainous regions, including urban settlements, and livelihoods of the urban poor. Adaptive capacity for marginalized groups is largely determined ...
Urban Form and Sense of Community: Exploring Catalysts for Community Sustainability within Al-Wakrah Neighborhood in Qatar
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Scientific & Academic Publishing
, 2017 , Article)
Urban planners seek to create a sense of community by effectively interfacing urban form and community
development. In Qatar, community change has become a matter of public concern amid intense development activities. ...
An integrated dynamical modeling perspective for infrastructure resilience
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MDPI
, 2018 , Article)
© 2018 by the authors This paper considers a dynamical way to connect resilience outcomes and processes by nesting process-based approaches inside a controlled dynamical system under resource constraints. To illustrate ...
On the resilience of modern power systems: A comprehensive review from the cyber-physical perspective
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
The digital transformation of power systems into cyber-physical systems (CPSs) is the inevitable trend of modern power systems with the integration of large-scale renewable energy. The in-depth interdependence of cyber and ...
Rural development program in tribal region: A protocol for adaptation and addressing climate change vulnerability
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Tribal peoples globally are among the most vulnerable groups to climate change and variability. This is due to a combination of their relative poverty and their dependence on agriculture and natural support systems (NSS). ...
Sustainable livelihood framework-based indicators for assessing climate change vulnerability and adaptation for Himalayan communities
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
This study evaluated the climate change vulnerability of Himalayan communities, and their potential to adapt to these changes, through assessing their perceived reactions and counter-actions to climate change. The evaluation ...
Investigating the role of stakeholder engagement for more resilient vaccine supply chains during COVID-19
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Springer
, 2022 , Article)
The complexity of the supply chains and the uncertainties in the processes cause business to become more vulnerable in the face of disruptions. Pandemic situations such as COVID-19 cause sudden disruptions in supply chains, ...
Business models innovation in investment banks: a resilience perspective
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
Firms frequently change their business models in order to respond to internal and external challenges. This study aims to explore how investments banks adjust their business models in response to internal and external ...
Positive sentiments as coping mechanisms and path to resilience: the case of Qatar blockade
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Taylor & Francis
, 2020 , Article)
Existing research on coping accentuates the role of positive emotions as defensive mechanisms to cope with stressful situations and the ensuing negative emotions. The same literature justifies the long-term effects of ...
Efficiency-Resilience Nexus in Building Energy Management under Disruptions and Events
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2022 , Article)
The efficiency and resilience have a negative correlation and they move in opposite directions. Both of them cannot be simultaneously enhanced and improving one of them deteriorates the other one. This article studies the ...