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Journal articles on the topic "Environmental resilience projects"
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Bello Gómez, Lorena. "CDMX Resilient Code: Water Commons in Mexico City." ZARCH, no. 15 (January 27, 2021): 138–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2020154492.
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Using Mexico City (CDMX) as a paradigmatic example of seriously unbalanced water regimes, our project Resilient Code helps strengthen and communicate CDMX’s government efforts toward risk reduction and water resilience in marginal communities. Our project does so by bridging otherwise separate agents in the government towards a common goal: equitable resilience. Resilient Code provides design solutions that link the social infrastructure of PILARES (a network of 300 vocational schools distributed throughout the city) to CDMX’s environmental and risk reduction initiatives, including their Risk Atlas. This strategic program of design-based solutions began with “water resilience” as a Pilot to repurpose public space throughout underserviced barrios as a network of “water-commons”. Resilient Code helps partners in CDMX implement projects to reduce environmental risks and complement socio-economic programs, fostering growth of the “water-commons”. Resilient Code is socialized through a participatory game-based workshop, and through an online Atlas of Risk Reduction.
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Cairns, Maryann R., Clayton E. Cox, Jose Zambrana, Joseph Flotemersch, Alexis Lan, Anna Phillips, Gordana Kozhuharova, Mihallaq Qirjo, Marta Szigeti Bonifert, and Lek Kadeli. "Building multi-country collaboration on watershed management: lessons on linking environment and public health from the Western Balkans." Reviews on Environmental Health 32, no. 1-2 (March 1, 2017): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2016-0053.
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Abstract Community-based watershed resilience programs that bridge public health and environmental outcomes often require cross-boundary, multi-country collaboration. The CRESSIDA project, led by the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) and supported by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), forwards a resilience-focused approach for Western Balkan communities in the Drini and Drina river watersheds with the goal of safeguarding public health and the environment. The initial phases of this project give a contextualized example of how to advance resilience-driven environmental health goals in Western Balkan communities, and experience within the region has garnered several theme areas that require focus in order to promote a holistic watershed management program. In this paper, using CRESSIDA as a case study, we show (1) how watershed projects designed with resilience-driven environmental health goals can work in context, (2) provide data surrounding contextualized problems with resilience and suggest tools and strategies for the implementation of projects to address these problems, and (3) explore how cross-boundary foci are central to the success of these approaches in watersheds that comprise several countries.
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Bănică, Alexandru, Mihail Eva, Ema Corodescu-Roșca, Bogdan-Constantin Ibănescu, Ana-Maria Opria, and Gabriela Carmen Pascariu. "Towards smart(er) resilient cities. Evidences from Romanian urban areas." Geografie 125, no. 4 (2020): 397–422. http://dx.doi.org/10.37040/geografie2020125040397.
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The investment in communication technologies has become increasingly prominent in cities, as they face a considerable pressure to become “smarter”. Connected technologies are able to collect and analyze data in real time, leading to predictive and adaptive decisions. However, being smart(er) does not necessary mean being more resilient; in fact, using sophisticated technologies may have some drawbacks that diminish the general resilience capacity of cities. The present paper aims to explore the relationship between resilience and smart city initiatives. The number of smart city projects is therefore firstly correlated with the resilience capacity (built on three dimensions: economic, socio-demographic, and environmental), then to the outcome resilience (calculated as the recovery following the recent economic crisis). The results show a clear connection between the most socially resilient cities, the share of employment in tertiary activities, and the implementation of smart city projects.
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Morrow, Nathan, Nancy B. Mock, Andrea Gatto, Julia LeMense, and Margaret Hudson. "Protective Pathways: Connecting Environmental and Human Security at Local and Landscape Level with NLP and Geospatial Analysis of a Novel Database of 1500 Project Evaluations." Land 11, no. 1 (January 12, 2022): 123. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11010123.
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Localized actionable evidence for addressing threats to the environment and human security lacks a comprehensive conceptual frame that incorporates challenges associated with active conflicts. Protective pathways linking previously disciplinarily-divided literatures on environmental security, human security and resilience in a coherent conceptual frame that identifies key relationships is used to analyze a novel, unstructured data set of Global Environment Fund (GEF) programmatic documents. Sub-national geospatial analysis of GEF documentation relating to projects in Africa finds 73% of districts with GEF land degradation projects were co-located with active conflict events. This study utilizes Natural Language Processing on a unique data set of 1500 GEF evaluations to identify text entities associated with conflict. Additional project case studies explore the sequence and relationships of environmental and human security concepts that lead to project success or failure. Differences between biodiversity and climate change projects are discussed but political crisis, poverty and disaster emerged as the most frequently extracted entities associated with conflict in environmental protection projects. Insecurity weakened institutions and fractured communities leading both directly and indirectly to conflict-related damage to environmental programming and desired outcomes. Simple causal explanations found to be inconsistent in previous large-scale statistical associations also inadequately describe dynamics and relationships found in the extracted text entities or case summaries. Emergent protective pathways that emphasized poverty and conflict reduction facilitated by institutional strengthening and inclusion present promising possibilities. Future research with innovative machine learning and other techniques of working with unstructured data may provide additional evidence for implementing actions that address climate change and environmental degradation while strengthening resilience and human security. Resilient, participatory and polycentric governance is key to foster this process.
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Kim, Gaeun, Jiwon Kim, Youngjin Ko, Olebogeng Thelma G. Eyman, Sarwat Chowdhury, Julie Adiwal, Wookyun Lee, and Yowhan Son. "How Do Nature-Based Solutions Improve Environmental and Socio-Economic Resilience to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals? Reforestation and Afforestation Cases from the Republic of Korea." Sustainability 13, no. 21 (November 4, 2021): 12171. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132112171.
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Industrial and technological development have contributed significantly to causing environmental crises, such as climate change and land degradation. To address these environmental challenges, nature-based solutions (NBS) have gained increased attention over conventional technical responses. This study derived conceptual linkages from NBS application to resilience promotion, and subsequently, to the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). The study was conducted to reveal that NBS activities are an essential approach that determines the balance between human development and nature conservation. In this paper, we compare four case studies, one domestic reforestation project and three international afforestation projects, all of which had forest-related NBS experiences and were conducted by the Republic of Korea. All four projects were found to have an impact on environmental and socio-economic resilience. These impacts were qualitatively assessed through resilience indicator evaluations. Subsequently, the resilience indicators were matched with the targets of the SDGs. NBS initiatives designed to include various natural and social elements promoted the resilience of ecosystems and society and address a broader spectrum of SDGs. Further efforts to establish region-specific promotional models, identify resilience indicators, and collect scientific data are recommended for quantitatively assessing the NBS initiatives.
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He, Zheng, Genda Wang, Huihua Chen, and Hongyan Yan. "Is Resilient Transportation Infrastructure Low-Carbon? Evidence from High-Speed Railway Projects in China." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2022 (April 28, 2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/3138413.
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Establishing resilient transport infrastructure is an effective way for cities to deal with external disturbances and uncertainties during rapid urbanization. However, human society is presently facing a series of sustainable development obstacles, where the energy shortage and environmental pollution are catching significant concerns. Hence, it is imperative to investigate the carbon emission of the growing number of resilient transportation infrastructure (RTI) projects. Through extracting the carbon emission factor (CEF), this study built the carbon emission measurement model (CEMM) to evaluate the carbon emission of 26 resilient high-speed railway construction projects in China. The results indicated that the carbon emissions of the entire high-speed railway infrastructure projects in China show regional and social environmental differences. Meanwhile, there are potential correlations and positive relationships between the resilience of the high-speed railway infrastructure projects and their carbon emission. Suggestions and recommendations for governments and construction enterprises are put forward to further improve the resilient and low-carbon development of transportation infrastructure in China.
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Yang, Jie, and Qian Cheng. "THE IMPACT OF ORGANISATIONAL RESILIENCE ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECT SUCCESS: EVIDENCE FROM LARGE-SCALE CONSTRUCTION IN CHINA." JOURNAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 26, no. 8 (November 5, 2020): 775–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jcem.2020.13796.
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Environmental uncertainty, social public events and increasing challenges has raised the urgency for the need to improve organisational resilience of construction projects, which is of great significance to the success and governance of construction projects. This study explores the organisational resilience factors that affect the success of construction projects based on a literature review and the actual situation and abstracts them into four explanatory variables: situation monitoring, organisational structure, organisational culture and participants. Through the crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (csQCA) method, 15 Chinese cases that meet the research conditions are compared and analysed, and two effective conditional configurations obtained. The results show that in the absence of timely monitoring of the changes in the situation, flexible organisational structure, cohesive organisational culture and participation of multiple subjects can promote the success of the construction project. The synergy of multiple participants can make up for the lack of organisational culture to a certain extent. Moreover, public participation and big data applications should be given full attention in the improvement of organisational resilience. This study can provide a basis for construction projects to reasonably match organisational resilience conditions to cope with crisis and challenges.
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Herrera, Hugo, and Birgit Kopainsky. "Using system dynamics to support a participatory assessment of resilience." Environment Systems and Decisions 40, no. 3 (February 28, 2020): 342–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10669-020-09760-5.
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Abstract Resilience has emerged as a buzzword among researchers and practitioners. However, despite its popularity, there has been little progress in moving it from a metaphor to applied projects. While case study research is rich with examples of systems that have proven to be resilient or are striving to develop resilience, the approaches for operationalising concepts described in the literature are still under development. This paper contributes to this development by incorporating system dynamics (SD) modelling within participatory approaches to resilience assessment. With this aim, we combined concepts and practices from the resilience literature with experiences, those documented in the literature and our own, applying system dynamics to resilience assessment. The proposed approach builds and complement other the literature by outlining a modelling process that is consistent with both the resilience literature and the SD modelling practices and providing a generic structure for designing interventions.
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Cortês Neto, Ewerton Dantas, Maihana Maira Cruz Dantas, Rodrigo da Silva Maia, Irami Araújo Filho, and Eulália Maria Chaves Maia. "The Resilience of Adolescent Participants in Social Projects for Sport." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 25, no. 3 (March 2020): 901–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232020253.18362018.
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Abstract The aim of this study was to evaluate the resilience of adolescents participants and non-participants of social projects for sports relating it to their sociodemographic profile. Cross-section Study, comparative and analytical, covered 134 adolescents, from ages 12 to 17, residing in a social zone of high vulnerability in a Northeastern Brazilian city. The data collected was obtained through structured interviews and a questionnaire/resilience scale, developed by Wagnild and Young (1993). The descriptive and inferential statistical analysis was used, especially the Student ‘T’ Test for the independent samples and the chi-square test. In both cases, the statistical significance level adopted was p < 0.05. The overall mean resilience was 110.6 (±15.9) and the participants in social projects demonstrated better resilience (p = 0.063), with a predominance of male gender, age group 15 to 17 years old, without health problems, parents (father/mother) self-employed, retired, pensioner or unemployed with income less than 1 minimum wage, without alcohol/cigarette and other drugs. The participants of the social projects presented a better level of resilience, even though there were several unfavorable situations and many risks presented as well.
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Gadzama, Njidda Mamadu, and Haruna Kuje Ayuba. "On major environmental problem of desertification in Northern Nigeria with sustainable efforts to managing it." World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development 13, no. 1 (January 4, 2016): 18–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wjstsd-06-2015-0035.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the extent of desertification and land degradation as threat to sustainable environmental, agricultural and land development in the Sahel of Nigeria with its consequences; with also some efforts to control desertification. Design/methodology/approach – Several desertification attenuation projects in Nigeria are employing different methods for maximum benefits obtainable from the objectives) of the particular project. Specific methods will be cited for particular projects mentioned as appropriate. It is noted however that environmental impact assessment, community reconnaissance or needs assessments were initial part of pre-project activities. Findings – Desertification has reached an alarming state in Nigeria. The frontline desert threatened States of Nigeria constitute 40 per cent of the land mass of the country. With increased pressure of desertification, exacerbated by a period of prolonged drought of about 20 years, climate change and human activities, it is becoming increasingly difficult to obtain sustainability in the management of the fragile lands and the region’s ecosystem. Strategic interventions in combating the problem of desertification in Nigeria have attenuated some of the detrimental social, economic and environmental impacts on the affected communities of the Sahel of the country. Programmes and projects are designed to strengthen the resilience of the people in the affected region with sound ecosystems’ management; support the efforts of the communities resulting in increased agricultural yields. Programmes and projects have strengthened the resilience of the people, participating in sand dune stabilization, the Great Green Wall Sahara Sahel Initiative and other shelterbelt development. Government has sustained inputs in environmentally friendly agriculture and also encouraged synergetic collaborative activities with national agencies, international agencies and local institutions. Originality/value – These results/activities give evidence of the increased public awareness of environmental degradation due to desertification in Nigeria; the realization in environmental stabilization needs with ready participation of the communities for improved livelihoods in arid agriculture; resulting in internalization of these problems for Nigeria.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Environmental resilience projects"
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Nanayakkara, Madurika. "Green bonds : Do they bring sustainability to environmentally friendly projects?" Thesis, Federation University Australia, 2018. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/169217.
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This study was motivated by the urgent requirement to scale up the global green bond (GB) market to meet the trillion-dollar financial requirement of environmental resilience projects worldwide, and by the absence of prior scientific investigations to determine solutions to the GB market’s problems from different perspectives. Three empirical studies were conducted to provide a holistic view of the GB market. The first study investigated the perception gaps of different stakeholders in the GB market in terms of assessing the ‘greenness’ of projects funded through GBs, investors’ expectations of GB investments, and the factors hindering the growth of the GB market. A qualitative method was employed with document review, followed by interviews, a questionnaire survey and peer debriefing. The study found that both the demand and supply sides of the GB market are inadequate to meet the world’s green investment requirements. The main obstacles hindering the market growth are fear for greenwashing, definitions that lack clarity, the absence of large-scale issues, and the high costs associated with complex reporting processes and third-party certifications. The second study assessed the influence of GB principles on investor demand for GBs, using global GBs issued for the period 2007 to 2016. Bid–ask spread and yield spread were used to measure the investor demand. The results indicated a significant positive relationship between the degree of compliance and investor demand. The third study compared the credit spreads of corporate GBs and conventional bonds, measured by option-adjusted spread daily data for the period 2016 to 2017 worldwide. Hybrid method of panel data regression was employed to analyse the data, and found that GBs are traded at a premium in the world market, compared with conventional bonds. This thesis suggests several policy implications based on the findings of these studies to scale up the GB market as a new source of financing.Doctor of Philosophy
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Warka, Jette Lyng. "Family environment and the development of hardiness." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1138.
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Zhen, Jinzhu. "Exploring the Impact of Eco-migration Project, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, CHina." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-208917.
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To reverse the emergency environmental degradation of Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, the localgovernment enforced a new developing project – Eco-migration, which aims at bothenvironmental restoration and poverty alleviation. Within ten years’ time, more than 400,000 ruralresidents were relocated. Through professional training and labor transportation, the financialcondition was largely improved. The annual income of these eco-migrants was highly raised from0.2 USD a day in 2000 to 3.51 USD a day in 2010. From the environmental perspective, morethan 70 percent of the sandy wasteland was restored. The vegetable coverage jumped up to 75percent, comparing to 30 percent in 2000. Through field study, the feedbacks from theseeco-migrants were collected. Eco-migrants were highly satisfied with the economic andenvironmental improvement. However, there are lots of improvements can be done. In one word,that’s the way the government trying to achieve the goal of sustainable development, whichproviding valuable experience for future.
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Candido, de Paula Elvira Claudia. "Espace de vie et résilience des personnes expropriées par les grands projets (à partir du cas de Suape, Brésil)." Thesis, Pau, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PAUU1027.
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La mise en place de grands projets d’aménagement peut avoir des impacts sociaux provoqués par le déplacement des familles installées dans les espaces concernés. C’est pour contribuer à comprendre et analyser ce type de problème que la présente recherche s’est tournée vers les personnes déjà expropriées par le Complexe Industriel Portuaire de Suape, au Nordeste du Brésil, et habitant maintenant en dehors de leurs anciens espaces de vie. La présente thèse cherche à explorer dans quelle mesure ces personnes reconstruisent leur espace de vie. Tout en mobilisant le concept d’espace de vie, la thèse reprend la notion de résilience, comprise comme « la reprise d’un nouveau développement » de ces personnes, considérées comme sujets d’un point de vue géographique. L’objectif est donc d’analyser le processus de reconstruction spatiale – réussie ou non – des personnes expropriées par l’entreprise SUAPE, avec l’espoir d’aboutir à quelques propositions qui puissent aider à minimiser les problèmes socio-spatiaux découlant de l’expropriation. L’analyse s’appuie sur les différentes zones d’origine et de relocalisation, parcourues lors du terrain de recherche (l’île de Tatuoca, Massangana, Águas Compridas, Gaibu, Nossa Senhora do Ó, et l’Assentamento Valdir Ximenes, au Pernambouc - Brésil), pour connaître les espaces de vie des familles et leur situation actuelle. L’atmosphère de peur qui y régnait nous a obligé à utiliser certaines techniques pour dépasser les difficultés, dont la méthode d’enquête par boule de neige et la prise de photos par les habitants eux-mêmes. Il en ressort que le déplacement des personnes correspond à un traumatisme, mais peut aussi dans certains cas, signifier de nouvelles opportunités dans de nouveaux espaces de vie dont certaines des caractéristiques sont favorables ou défavorables à la reprise d’un nouveau développement personnel. Les différentes zones parcourues nous ont permis encore de voir combien les habitants souffrent de leur éloignement des pratiques spatiales d’avant, mais aussi, que certains d’entre eux, même si c’est de façon précaire, ont réussi à s’engager dans un nouveau développement à partir du peu qu’ils avaient. La thèse se termine par quelques suggestions et perspectives pour des recherches futuresThe setting up of large planning project may have social impacts due to the displacement of families settled into the affected areas. In order to have a better understanding and a finer analysis of such an issue, this research is focusing upon the expropriated individuals by the Industrial Port Complex of Suape in the Brazil’s Nordeste, who are now dwelling outside of their old living areas. This thesis explores the means by which these people are piecing their life back together. The thesis tackles the concept of living environment as well as the notion of resilience, understood as “the resumption of a new development” of these people through the geographical point of view. The objective is thus to analyze the process of spatial reconstruction – succeed or not – of expropriated individuals by the SUAPE company, with the hope of ending in useful propositions to minimize the socio-spatial problems that stemmed from the expropriation. The analysis is based upon the multiple areas of people’s origin and relocation crossed during the research on the ground (the island of Tatuoca, Massangana, Águas Compridas, Gaibu, Nossa Senhora do Ó, and the Assentamento Valdir Ximenes, in Pernambouc - Brazil), to know the living environment of families and their current situation. The pervasive atmosphere of fear that remains in these places constrained us to use specific technics to overcome the difficulties, including the “snow ball survey” and the taking of pictures by the inhabitants of these areas. It results from this research that such a displacement of individuals is experienced as a trauma, but in some cases, can also offer new opportunities in the new living environment with its characteristics being more favorable or unfavorable to a renewal of the personal development. The visited areas allowed us to acknowledge the inhabitant’s suffering from the remoteness of their prior spatial practices, but also, that some of these individuals have been successful, even in a precarious manner, in piecing their life back together while starting with the little they had. The thesis is ending with some suggestions and avenues for future researches
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Silva, Tiago Brito da. "Urbanismo sustentável e o paradigma da resiliência. Aplicações em planejamento e projeto: estudos de caso nas intervenções urbanas da Línea K em Medellín, sistema teleférico do Complexo do Alemão e Parque Sitiê no Vidigal." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/16/16138/tde-22062017-164655/.
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A presente dissertação tem por objetivo discutir a importância de uma postura resiliente para a busca do urbanismo sustentável. O termo \"sustentável\" e suas variantes passaram por um desgaste nas últimas décadas, formando uma barreira prejudicial à sua aplicação efetiva. A \"resiliência\", surge, então, como uma forma de revisitar a questão, através de um conceito oriundo da física, que possibilita conceber uma transposição teórica para a arquitetura e o urbanismo, disciplinas nas quais o tema pode colaborar na formulação de novas ferramentas e conceitos aplicáveis ao planejamento e projeto. Almeja-se, através da sua conceituação teórica, contribuir para a elaboração de uma postura resiliente e promover o termo \"resiliência urbana\" em direção ao enfrentamento da crise urbana, ocasionada pelo crescimento vertiginoso da urbanização mundial e da consequente aglomeração populacional nas cidades. Nos países em desenvolvimento, essa abordagem pode ser de grande utilidade, dado que a crise urbana é fortalecida pelo avanço da informalidade e pela formação de novos tecidos urbanos às margens do planejamento. O conceito de resiliência, neste caso, possibilita uma discussão voltada às questões de espontaneidade, improvisos, constantes mudanças e transformações, inerentes à condição urbana, se discutido dentro de uma abordagem de Sistemas Adaptativos Complexos. Para tanto, elaborou-se uma análise reflexiva, a fim de aferir a transferência da teoria para prática, a partir de três projetos urbanos já implantados: as intervenções em torno da Línea K, em Medellín, Colômbia, o sistema teleférico do Complexo do Alemão e o Parque Sitiê, ambos na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. A partir daí, pôde-se constatar que a visão sistêmica adaptativa e complexa da resiliência traz a possibilidade de promover a inter-relação entre sociedade, economia e ambiente na construção do meio urbano e, assim, encorajar uma nova postura frente a difusão de um Urbanismo Sustentável.The present dissertation aims to discuss the importance of a resilient posture in the search for a sustainable urbanism. The term \"sustainable\" and its variants have gone through a wear and tear through the last few decades, forming a barrier which prejudices its effective application. The \"resilience\" term then appears as a way of revisiting this matter, through a concept derived from physics, that allows a theoretical transposition to architecture and urbanism disciplines in which the subject can cooperate in the formulation of new tools and concepts that can be applied into planning and project design process. Over the theoretical conception, it is intended the contribution on the elaboration of a resilient attitude and therefore promotes the term \"urban resilience\" towards the current urban crisis, caused by the dramatical growth of the world urbanization and the consequent population cluster within cities. In developing countries, the approach can be very useful, given that the urban crisis is strengthened by the rise of informality and the formation of new urban networks at the edge of planning actions. The concept of resilience, in this case, enables a discussion focused on spontaneity issues, improvisations, changes and transformations, inherent to the urban condition, discussed within a Complex Adaptive Systems approach. However to elaborate a reflexive analysis it is necessary to verify the transformation of theory into practice from three urban projects already implemented: Line K\'s urban interventions in Medellín, Colombia, cable car system at Alemão Complex and Sitiê Park, both in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In conclusion, an adaptive and complex systemic view of resilience has the potential to promote an interrelationship between society, economy and environment during the construction of an urban environment and therefore encourage a new attitude towards the diffusion of Sustainable Urbanism.
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Karim, M. Elyas. "Exploring the lessons from an international rural environmental project in a developing country through observations of the community: a case study of the ‘Conservation of Biodiversity in the Central Zagros Landscape’ project." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1410903.
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Masters Research - Master of Philosophy (MPhil)Climate change is a developing global phenomenon as a critical disaster to the life of the human being. Air, water and other natural resources are being affected by that destructively. There is a range of climate change impact samples on the planet amongst the various social, economic, and environmental sections. As a result, the global community has created a variety of the international climate change adaptation contracts from 1992 Rio Earth Summit to 2016 Paris Agreement (as the main one), and still addressing the formation of new agreements. Further, the international community has started launching global climate change adaptation projects. However, many of these projects failed to achieve their objectives, while the developed countries are planning to supply about 100 billion USD for climate change adaptation projects from 2020 to 2030 in developing countries based on the Paris Agreement. On the other hand, developing countries, the Middle East and rural areas are more vulnerable in terms of climate change effects, compared to developed countries, other world regions and urban areas, respectively. Consequently, this research aimed to investigate an International Rural Environmental Project (IREP) in the Middle East. Considering the fact that Zagros mountain range is the most significant environmental zone of the Middle East, as it balances the region's climate, and the Conservation of Biodiversity in Central Zagros Landscape (CBCZL) project is the main IREP implemented in the Zagros area so far, this study explored the lessons from the CBCZL project. It was aimed to know what the advantages of and barriers to the CBCZL project are, how the community observations of the project compare with the SDGs 13 and 15, and what the major lessons learnt about the effects of the CBCZL project on the community are. The study utilised a mixed-method and a case study approach, through analysing the collected data from the secondary and primary resources (including the experts’ opinion and local rural community’s observations). Finally, it is discovered that: 1) the CBCZL project was more successful in the community aspects; 2) air pollution and drought are the main problems; 3) experts and public have dissimilar recognitions on the ecosystem conditions; 4) project discontinuation is a challenge; 5) the project failed to mainstream; 6) further public awareness is necessary; and 7) the implementation barriers are in the tactical levels rather than technical. It is recommended that further researches investigate the causes of dissimilarities between the perception of experts and the community. Besides, the environmental management characteristics, barriers, and resolutions must be studied before the implementation of the next projects. It is also significant that current/next project managers utilise strategic consultations. Public awareness must be further studied and improved for similar IREPs.
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Eidem, Nathan T. 1978. "Enhancing social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River Basin." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/28678.
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This research presents the Colorado River basin as a social-ecological
system. Utilizing event data on cooperative and conflictive interactions over fresh water, the system is decomposed to look for evidence of outcomes of resilience enhancement. The Animas-La Plata Project in the upper San Juan basin is presented as a case study, and qualitative methods are used to analyze interactions that led to its construction in order to assess social-ecological outcomes.
In the upper San Juan basin, cooperative interactions over fresh water
outnumbered conflictive ones. Interactions over water rights and
infrastructure were most common, and the most cooperative interactions
focused on these issue types. Many of these interactions focused on the
Animas-La Plata Project compromise, which ultimately enhances social-ecological resilience in the Colorado River basin.Graduation date: 2012
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Ernst, Jody Lynn. "Genetic and environmental influences of maternal psychosocial and antisocial tendencies on the development, stability, and continuity of problem behaviors in adoptees from the Texas Adoption Project: a life course investigation of risk, resilience, and vulnerability." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3446.
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(11176893), Toy W. Andrews. "Opportunities from Disaster: The Case for Using The Circular Economy in Debris Management." Thesis, 2021.
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Following a grounded theory research model, the research uncovered and presented the state of debris recycling to a national association of demolition contractors to measure their willingness and attitudes towards the growing trend in the circular economy and adapting their business models to incorporate it into their own contracts. The first part was finding the deficiencies in the current model based on government reports and through interviews with county-level emergency managers. Second, successful businesses that already use the circular economy design in their operations were used as exemplars to emulate and their opinions and suggestions were discussed. The outputs of the emergency managers and the successful businesses was folded into the third phase of the research with surveys to the membership of the National Demolition Association (NDA) with multiple-choice, scalar questions and open-ended, opinion-heavy questions throughout. The findings were reported back to the head of the partnering organization, the NDA, to focus outreach, training, and policy advocacy concentration for the national organization as a whole, but to related and tangentially-connected industries to their own.
Books on the topic "Environmental resilience projects"
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Towards resilient development: Scope for mainstreaming poverty, environment, climate change and disaster in development studies : an analysis of selected public sector development projects. [Dhaka]: General Economics Division, Planning Commission, Ministry of Planning, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, 2014.
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Radivojević, Ana, and Linda Hildebrand. SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT BUILDING DESIGN: approaches, methods and tools. Edited by Saja Kosanović, Tillmann Klein, and Thaleia Konstantinou. TU Delft Bouwkunde, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.47982/bookrxiv.26.
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The challenges to which contemporary building design needs to respond grow steadily. They originate from the influence of changing environmental conditions on buildings, as well as from the need to reduce the impact of buildings on the environment. The increasing complexity requires the continual revision of design principles and their harmonisation with current scientific findings, technological development, and environmental, social, and economic factors. It is precisely these issues that form the backbone of the thematic book, Sustainable and Resilient Building Design: Approaches, Methods, and Tools. The purpose of this book is to present ongoing research from the universities involved in the project Creating the Network of Knowledge Labs for Sustainable and Resilient Environments (KLABS). The book starts with the exploration of the origin, development, and the state-of-the-art notions of environmental design and resource efficiency. Subsequently, climate change complexity and dynamics are studied, and the design strategy for climate-proof buildings is articulated. The investigation into the resilience of buildings is further deepened by examining a case study of fire protection. The book then investigates interrelations between sustainable and resilient building design, compares their key postulates and objectives, and searches for the possibilities of their integration into an outreaching approach. The fifth article in the book deals with potentials and constraints in relation to the assessment of the sustainability (and resilience) of buildings. It critically analyses different existing building certification models, their development paths, systems, and processes, and compares them with the general objectives of building ratings. The subsequent paper outlines the basis and the meaning of the risk and its management system, and provides an overview of different visual, auxiliary, and statistical risk assessment methods and tools. Following the studies of the meanings of sustainable and resilient buildings, the book focuses on the aspects of building components and materials. Here, the life cycle assessment (LCA) method for quantifying the environmental impact of building products is introduced and analysed in detail, followed by a comprehensive comparative overview of the LCA-based software and databases that enable both individual assessment and the comparison of different design alternatives. The impact of climate and pollution on the resilience of building materials is analysed using the examples of stone, wood, concrete, and ceramic materials. Accordingly, the contribution of traditional and alternative building materials to the reduction of negative environmental impact is discussed and depicted through different examples. The book subsequently addresses existing building stock, in which environmental, social, and economic benefits of building refurbishment are outlined by different case studies. Further on, a method for the upgrade of existing buildings, described as ‘integrated rehabilitation’, is deliberated and supported by best practice examples of exoskeleton architectural prosthesis. The final paper reflects on the principles of regenerative design, reveals the significance of biological entities, and recognises the need to assign to buildings and their elements a more advanced role towards natural systems in human environments.
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Anguillari, Enrico, and Branka Dimitrijević. INTEGRATED URBAN PLANNING: directions, resources and territories. TU Delft Bouwkunde, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.47982/bookrxiv.24.
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The purpose of the book on integrated urban planning (IUP) is to present ongoing research from the universities involved in the project Creating the Network of Knowledge Labs for Sustainable and Resilient Environments (KLABS). Although sustainability and resilience have been largely explored in many complex social-ecological systems, they have only recently been applied in the context of cities. Both concepts are useful when seeking an integrated approach to urban planning as they help to look at the city as an interconnected, multi-dimensional system. Analysing the sustainability and the resilience of urban systems involves looking at environmental, social and economic aspects, as well as at those related to technology, culture and institutional structures. Sustainability, resilience as well as integrated urban development are all focused on process. Their objectives are typically defined around the ongoing operation of the process and they can change during the time. Therefore, building a sustainable and resilient city is a collective endeavor that is about mindsets just as much as about physical structures and their operation, where capacity to anticipate and plan for the future, to learn and to adapt are paramount. The papers published in this book show that the recent and current research in those institutions focuses on the directions of development of IUP, the processes that support sustainable and resilient use of natural resources and their application in the Western Balkan and some other European countries. Each essay aims to provide an overview of key aspects of the research topic. The division of the book into three parts - directions, resources and territories - underlines how the challenges that the contemporary city poses can be dealt with more effectively by integrating different paradigms, concepts and trends of urban development and governance; taking into account the numerous problems linked to the availability and exploitation of the main natural and non-natural resources; and looking at the city and the territory as systems in constant transformation, not reducible within rigid dichotomies such as urban/rural, dense/sprawled, formal/informal, etc.
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W, Freyberg Ronald, Boiano James M, and National Risk Management Research Laboratory (U.S.), eds. Airborne asbestos concentrations during buffing, burnishing, and stripping of resilient floor tile: Project summary. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 1995.
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W, Freyberg Ronald, Boiano James M, and National Risk Management Research Laboratory (U.S.), eds. Airborne asbestos concentrations during buffing, burnishing, and stripping of resilient floor tile: Project summary. Cincinnati, OH: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 1995.
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Chan, Emily Ying Yang. Issues in rural health and key messages for health and disaster risk reduction education programmes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198807179.003.0007.
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A healthy community should have a safe and hygienic environment, with access to basic well-being maintaining facilities and services. Key messages for education programmes related to water management, indoor environment, waste management, health promoting behaviour, and disaster health risk reduction are presented in this chapter. It also aims to share some common health communication and education that might be useful to improve bottom-up resilience for health and disaster health risk reduction in rural communities. Examples from the Ethnic Minority Health Project will also be employed to illustrate how bottom-up resilience towards health and disaster risk in these rural communities might be established.
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Konstantinou, Thaleia, Nataša Ćuković Ignjatović, and Martina Zbašnik-Senegačnik. ENERGY: resources and building performance. TU Delft Bouwkunde, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.47982/bookrxiv.25.
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The use of energy in buildings is a complex problem, but it can be reduced and alleviated by making appropriate decisions. Therefore, architects face a major and responsible task of designing the built environment in such a way that its energy dependence will be reduced to a minimum, while at the same time being able to provide comfortable living conditions. Today, architects have many tools at their disposal, facilitating the design process and simultaneously ensuring proper assessment in the early stages of building design. The purpose of this book is to present ongoing research from the universities involved in the project Creating the Network of Knowledge Labs for Sustainable and Resilient Environments (KLABS). This book attempts to highlight the problem of energy use in buildings and propose certain solutions. It consists of nine chapters, organised in three parts. The gathering of chapters into parts serves to identify the different themes that the designer needs to consider, namely energy resources, energy use and comfort, and energy efficiency. Part 1, entitled “Sustainable and Resilient Energy Resources,” sets off by informing the reader about the basic principles of energy sources, production, and use. The chapters give an overview of all forms of energies and energy cycle from resources to end users and evaluate the resilience of renewable energy systems. This information is essential to realise that the building, as an energy consumer, is part of a greater system and the decisions can be made at different levels. Part 2, entitled “Energy and Comfort in the Built Environment”, explain the relationship between energy use and thermal comfort in buildings and how it is predicted. Buildings consume energy to meet the users’ needs and to provide comfort. The appropriate selection of materials has a direct impact on the thermal properties of a building. Moreover, comfort is affected by parameters such as temperature, humidity, air movement, air quality, lighting, and noise. Understanding and calculating those conditions are valuable skills for the designers. After the basics of energy use in buildings have been explained, Part 3, entitled “Energy Saving Strategies” aims to provide information and tools that enable an energy- and environmentally-conscious design. This part is the most extensive as it aims to cover different design aspects. Firstly, passive and active measures that the building design needs to include are explained. Those measures are seen from the perspective of heat flow and generation. The Passive House concept, which is explained in the second chapter of Part 3, is a design approach that successfully incorporates such measures, resulting in low energy use by the building. Other considerations that the following chapters cover are solar control, embodied energy and CO2 emissions, and finally economic evaluation. The energy saving strategies explained in this book, despite not being exhaustive, provide basic knowledge that the designer can use and build upon during the design of new buildings and existing building upgrades. In the context of sustainability and resilience of the built environment, the reduction of energy demand is crucial. This book aims to provide a basic understanding of the energy flows in buildings and the subsequent impact for the building’s operation and its occupants. Most importantly, it covers the principles that need to be taken into account in energy efficient building design and demonstrates their effectiveness. Designers are shaping the built environment and it is their task to make energy-conscious and informed decisions that result in comfortable and resilient buildings.
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Wright, Amalie. Future Park. CSIRO Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643106611.
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The first public parks were created on urban 'greenfields'. Once these designated sites had been used, cities looked towards post-industrial sites, and built parks in places that had suffered from environmental degradation, neglect, abandonment and conflict. With finite stocks of urban post-industrial land now also approaching exhaustion, more ways of making parks are required to create inclusive, accessible and resilient urban places.
Future Park invites Australian built environment professionals and policymakers to consider the future of parks in our cities. Including spectacular images of public spaces throughout the world, the book describes the economic, social and environmental benefits of urban parks, and then outlines the threats and challenges facing cities and communities in an age when more than half the world's population are urban dwellers. Future Park introduces the need to embrace new public park thinking to ensure that benefits continue to be realised.
Future Park illustrates imaginative and resourceful responses to real challenges by highlighting recent proposals and projects. These projects coalesce around four broad themes – linkages, obsolescences, co-locations and installations – responding to contemporary urban paradoxes, and ensuring parks continue to play a vital role in the lives of our cities.
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Gerrard, Christopher. A Last Word. Edited by Christopher Gerrard and Alejandra Gutiérrez. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744719.013.67.
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Drawing on the contributions to the Handbook as a whole, this final chapter begins by summarizing the current infrastructural issues surrounding the study of later medieval archaeology. These include unresolved questions around access to unpublished reports generated by developer archaeology, the numerous barriers to synthesis and collaboration across disciplines, and the surge in applications of new techniques. Also mentioned in this context are the challenge of integrating the results of public archaeology projects and the impact of new theoretical perspectives, many of which are applied to good effect in this volume. The second part of the article focuses on four ‘grand challenges’ which hold promise for the future. These are defined as social complexity, resilience, behaviour and identity, humans, and the environment.
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Vielledent, Marc C. Alliances, Military Basing, and Logistics. Edited by Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, and John A. Cloud. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190680015.013.37.
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The United States has long enjoyed an essentially unopposed ability to project power and sustain its security forces dispersed throughout the world. However, the uncertainty facing the global security environment, including tenuous alliances, fiscal constraints, and a decline in overseas basing, has increased tensions in emerging areas of potential conflict. These factors are driving change regarding the United States’ defense posture and access agreements abroad. While the preponderance of overseas capability outweighs the preponderance of U.S. forces, deterrence continues to underpin the overarching national security strategy. However, deterrence options impacted by the lack of resilience and investment in distributed logistics and sustainment are generating an additional range of variables and conditions for operators on the ground to consider in shared and contested domains.
Book chapters on the topic "Environmental resilience projects"
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Walachosky, Nayreth, Cristina Gómez, Karen Martínez, Marianne Amaya, Maritza Rodríguez, Mariela Centeno, and Jennings Anderson. "Visualizing YouthMappers’ Contributions to Environmental Resilience in Latin America." In Sustainable Development Goals Series, 189–206. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05182-1_17.
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AbstractYouthMappers throughout Latin America are working to advance the attainment of the SDGs. Our contributions here centre on open data but also the maps and visualized analysis derived from them, which supports making decisions on how to achieve desired development across all seventeen goals. This chapter highlights the contribution of YouthMappers in ways that reduce inequalities around information access in Latin America (SDG 10), meanwhile advancing environmental resilience across the hemisphere, addressing a number of projects promoting biodiversity, conservation, and tourism that improve life on land (SDG 15).
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Batra, Geeta, and Trond Norheim. "Staying Small and Beautiful: Enhancing Sustainability in the Small Island Developing States." In Transformational Change for People and the Planet, 73–91. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78853-7_6.
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AbstractSpread over the ocean regions of the Caribbean, the Pacific and Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the South China Sea, the small island developing states (SIDS) are a distinct group of developing countries often known for their rich biological diversity, oceans, tourism, and fisheries. The pressures on these and other natural resources is most immediate in the islands where the high vulnerability to the impacts of climate change, limited land and water resources, often unsustainable natural resource use, and other particular economic vulnerabilities are disrupting livelihoods. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated the SIDS economies and livelihoods. Over the past 25 years the Global Environment Facility (GEF) has supported interventions in SIDS through $578 million in financing, in critical areas such as biodiversity protection, climate resilience, and energy access through renewable energy. But how effective and sustainable have these interventions been? What factors influencing the sustainability of GEF interventions can provide insights for future project design and implementation? This chapter draws on findings from a recent country cluster evaluation on SIDS conducted by the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the GEF. It presents the main environmental challenges in SIDS, the evidence on the relevance and effectiveness of GEF interventions in addressing these challenges, and the main risks to sustainability of outcomes. Important contextual factors that affect sustainability in SIDS include good policies and legal and regulatory frameworks, national ownership of projects, environmental awareness, institutional capacity, and strategic institutional partnerships. Project-related factors including good project design and adaptive project management, scaling-up and replication based on lessons learned, and a good exit strategy are also important for sustainability.
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Netherland, Julie, Ruth Finkelstein, and Paula Gardner. "The Age-Friendly New York City Project: An Environmental Intervention to Increase Aging Resilience." In Resilience in Aging, 273–87. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0232-0_18.
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Baró, Francesc, David A. Camacho, Carmen Perez del Pulgar, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén, and Pablo García-Serrano. "Nature-Based Climate Solutions in European Schools: A Pioneering Co-designed Strategy Towards Urban Resilience." In Urban Resilience to the Climate Emergency, 125–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07301-4_6.
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AbstractAs cities around the world are increasingly facing the impacts of climate change, a growing number of municipalities are leading collaborative projects to adapt schools to rising temperatures. The implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) is highlighted as an important component to be included in these initiatives given their multifunctional and cost-effective character. However, the challenges and upscaling opportunities of these pioneering projects are still not well understood nor systematically studied on a comparative basis. This study explores and compares three European pilot nature-based projects aiming to make schools more resilient to climate change impacts while creating other co-benefits for children and the wider local community. These projects are Oasis (Paris), Climate Shelters (Barcelona) and Care in School Environments (Madrid). Building on a framework for assessing the co-benefits of urban NBS, the comparative analysis explores the selection criteria of schools and their equity implications, the multifunctional role of NBS beyond climate adaptation, the main aspects and challenges related to the co-design process and the subsequent project implementation and the potential for upscaling at the city level. Based on this exploration, we contend that nature-based climate adaptation projects in schools can be a spearhead for a wider community-based strategy towards urban resilience.
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Bhatia, Akansha, Ankur Rajpal, Veerendra Sahoo, Vinay Kumar Tyagi, and A. A. Kazmi. "Environmental Assessment and Implementation of Mitigation Plan to Protect the Environment: A Case Study of New Nizamuddin Bridge Project, Delhi (India)." In Resilience, Response, and Risk in Water Systems, 339–55. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4668-6_18.
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Barnes, Jessica L. "Designing Resilient Cities that Work for Women, Too." In The Demography of Disasters, 169–87. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49920-4_9.
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Abstract Urban landscapes can—and do—influence multiple aspects of our lives, including our overall quality of life and disaster resilience. Research has confirmed that some populations experience negative outcomes in disasters at least partially attributed to poorly designed urban environments; and women's and girls’ resilience in particular can be impacted by their experience of the urban landscape. In response, urban designers have an opportunity and an obligation to incorporate gender-sensitive design approaches in all of their projects to ensure the whole community has access to the benefits of urban landscapes. This chapter examines current evidence and strategies for successful urban design that supports resilience in women and the cities they occupy.
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Head, Brian W. "Managing Environmental and Sustainability Challenges." In Wicked Problems in Public Policy, 83–106. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94580-0_5.
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AbstractWicked problems and robust debates abound in environmental policy at local, national and global levels. Over several decades, governments have responded with policies to mitigate industrial pollution, slow the rapid depletion of scarce natural resources and protect biodiversity and ecological systems. The precautionary principle has been invoked to seek thorough assessment of environmental risks before approving economic development projects and technological innovations that might damage ecological assets and human health. Scientific researchers and community groups have lobbied for strong measures to protect biodiversity and promote resilient eco-systems. Resistance to reform has generally been led by conservative parties, corporate media networks and large business firms in traditional industry sectors. Policies for environmental protection have been developed by most national governments, in conjunction with international agreements that encourage collective action. The toolkit of policy instruments has expanded, including regulatory standards and market-based incentives. The role of scientific expertise in providing policy advice on environmental issues has been vital, but controversial. The chapter explores how science interacts with other sources of knowledge and opinion among practitioners and stakeholders. Climate change policy is analysed as an example of interconnected wicked problems, along with brief references to other environmental issues.
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Popova, Lena, Svetlana Avelova, Alena Gerasimova, Julia Lutz, Svein Disch Mathiesen, Anisiia Moiakunova, Alexandra Petrova, et al. "Trends and Effects of Climate Change on Reindeer Husbandry in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)." In Reindeer Husbandry, 149–85. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17625-8_7.
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AbstractThe Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), like other Arctic regions, faces severe climatic and environmental changes and hazards such as temperature increase, permafrost thaw, intense forest fires, earlier melting, and flooding. Significant climate and environmental changes over the past decades pose risks to the preservation of the traditional way of life of Indigenous peoples, including reindeer husbandry. Understanding trends and effects of climate change in the Republic of Sakha is needed to project and manage the future of reindeer husbandry, the resilience of Indigenous communities, and plan their economic adaptation. In this article, we analyze meteorological data from four weather stations located in different reindeer herding areas of Yakutia focusing on snow cover formation, permafrost conditions, and forest fires; provide the results of in-depth interviews with local people on the impact of climate change on reindeer herding. The financing of resilience development in the Republic is discussed. In conclusion, suggest necessary measures that can be taken for adaptation and overcoming emerging threats and challenges for further development of reindeer husbandry which is the central basis of the identity of the Indigenous peoples of the North.
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Medway, Peter, Stephen Flood, Dug Cubie, and Martin Le Tissier. "Enhancing Integration of Disaster Risk and Climate Change Adaptation into Irish Emergency Planning." In Creating Resilient Futures, 83–108. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80791-7_5.
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AbstractThis chapter critically assesses the integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction with a special focus on the Irish policy and governance context. The chapter first presents a comprehensive overview of the Irish policy environment for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction including its current level of integration. Analysis of alignment with global and regional drivers of integration is then considered. Next, drawing on empirical research conducted with multidisciplinary experts across the Republic of Ireland, the chapter employs the SHIELD model, developed by the EU-funded ESPREssO project, which outlines six pathways to enhance integration across the domains of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. The pathways comprise of sharing knowledge, harmonising capacities, institutionalising coordination, engaging stakeholders, leveraging investments and developing communication. Findings of stakeholder focus groups and survey responses highlight the challenges and opportunities for impactful integration between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Ireland from a practitioner perspective across the six SHIELD pathways. Finally, conclusions from the study indicate the importance of governance, management and coordination of systems for climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction; the sequencing of policy-making, planning and research; and the significance of specificity in relation to use of the six SHIELD pathways.
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Nakano, Toshiki. "Rising to the Challenge of Reconstructing the Coastal Fisheries Environment After the Massive Tsunami: The National “Tohoku Ecosystem-Associated Marine Sciences (TEAMS)” Project." In Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems, 63–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13878-7_7.
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Esteban, Theresa Audrey O. "Mind the gap. Stakeholders perspective on resilience building in the City of." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/eebi3270.
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In 2016 the City of Rotterdam joined the 100 Resilient Cities of The Rockefeller Foundation. The 100 Resilient Cities is an initiative emphasizing the need for cities to build resilience. Rotterdam was one of the first to heed the call of the 100 Resilient Cities highlighting the city’s position as a frontrunner in addressing climate adaptive urban planning projects and innovative means in dealing with flood risks and vulnerabilities. Learning from the great North Sea flood of 1953 disaster experience, the Netherlands ensured strong preventive measures making the country safe from flooding. The City of Rotterdam benefits from these strong preventive measures as this safeguards the city and the biggest and most important port in Europe from any disaster. However, these strong preventive measure have also muted the concept of resilience on the stakeholders. This is also further weighed down by the many different initiatives present in the city. The paper seeks to investigate the institutional and non-institutional actors perspective on resilience and the environmental threats in the City of Rotterdam. The research assumes that knowledge and experience on Rotterdam’s environmental vulnerabilities and threats lead to better collaboration between and among stakeholders in making the city resilient. This knowledge and experience also leads to the mutual adaptation of roles between the government and other stakeholders of the city such as the citizens, businesses, academe, civil society organizations among others. The research explores questions related to stakeholders perception on risk and vulnerability of the city to disasters, disaster awareness and concern, and their definition of resilience and a resilient city.
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Chari, Arpita, Johan Vogt Duberg, Emma Lindahl, Johan Stahre, Mélanie Despeisse, Erik Sundin, Björn Johansson, and Magnus Wiktorsson. "Swedish Manufacturing Practices Towards a Sustainability Transition in Industry 4.0: A Resilience Perspective." In ASME 2021 16th International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec2021-62394.
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Abstract The Swedish strategic innovation programme, Produktion2030, is a national long-term effort towards global industrial competitiveness addressing Swedish industry’s transition towards climate goals of the European Green Deal while simultaneously realising smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0 (I4.0). This paper investigated the extent of sustainability implementation and implications of I4.0 technologies through a nation-wide quantitative survey in Produktion2030’s 113 collaborative research projects. The analysis showed that 71% of the assessed projects included environmental aspects, 60% social aspects, and 45% Circular Economy (CE) aspects. Further, 65% of the projects implemented I4.0 technologies to increase overall sustainability. The survey results were compared with literature to understand how I4.0 opportunities helped derive sustainability and CE benefits. This detailed mapping of the results along with eight semi-structured interviews revealed that a majority of the projects implemented I4.0 technologies to improve resource efficiency, reduce waste in operations and incorporate CE practices in business models. The results also showed that Swedish manufacturing is progressing in the right direction of sustainability transition by deriving key resilience capabilities from I4.0-based enablers. Industries should actively adopt these capabilities to address the increasingly challenging and unpredictable sustainability issues arising in the world and for a successful transition towards sustainable manufacturing in a digital future.
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George, Stella, and Constance Blomgren. "Open Education and Technology’s Symbiotic Relationship: Insights from Two OER Cases." In Tenth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Commonwealth of Learning, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.5194.
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Through the examination of two cases developed in a fully virtual environment, we illustrate and uncover the role and value of open educational pedagogy and practices as part of building educational resilience. The first project, Form and Function, wove together for teachers of secondary students, an interdisciplinary OER animation and learning activities as part of developing computational thinking. Following from this work, the Accelerating Vaccine Confidence project produced a science and digital literacy OER animation including open learning assets embracing student stakeholder voices. Throughout the co-creation of these curricular assets, the projects had collaborative design teams ranging from university professors and graduate students in the first case to high school students, their teachers and community members in the second. Hegarty’s (2015) attributes of open pedagogy frames and informs both projects and allows for a structured analysis of the processes and choices made. Participatory technologies formed a keystone of both projects and contribute toward the processes of educational resilience. The two cases highlight how interweaving open education with technology as a set of values and a mindset contributes toward educational innovative and resiliency. //
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Rojas Bernal, Claudia Lucia. "Water infrastructure and social housing in Bogotá: an intersection between modern water management and social housing production." In Seminario Internacional de Investigación en Urbanismo. Barcelona: Curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo. Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/siiu.6304.
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En la actualidad Bogotá afronta la presión de construir viviendas sociales en ecosistemas frágiles, áreas
rurales o zonas propensas a las inundaciones, y al mismo tiempo proteger estas áreas para asegurar la
capacidad de resiliencia del medio ambiente. Ante esta contradicción, la pregunta de investigación es:
¿Cómo se pueden modificar las tendencias de urbanización para crear una interacción que favorezca el
manejo sustentable del agua? Con el fin de responder esta pregunta ésta comunicación presenta un análisis
histórico de planes de alcantarillado y control hidráulico desarrollados desde 1990, junto con una revisión de
proyectos de vivienda social representativos, e investiga la interacción entre estos dos campos. El análisis
permite definir diferentes etapas en la transformación física del sistema hídrico que se basan en los cambios
universales de paradigma en la gestión del agua e ilustra diferentes construcciones socio-culturales en torno
a la naturaleza, además analiza la producción de vivienda en relación a la transformación del sistema
hídrico. Currently, Bogotá faces the pressure to continue to urbanize fragile ecosystems, rural lands and flood prone
areas with low-cost housing projects and simultaneously protect these areas to ensure environmental
resilience. Given this contradiction, the question is how urbanization trends could be reversed into a
constructive interplay with a revised water management? In order to that, this paper provides an historical
analysis of representative water infrastructure projects, urban plans and housing projects in Bogotá
developed after 1900 and investigates the interplays between this two realms. The analysis allows to define
different stages in the physical transformation of the water system that are based on universal paradigm
shifts in water management and illustrates different socio-cultural constructions around nature. It also
analysis the production of social housing in relation to the water system transformation.
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Alraouf, Ali. "The value of less and small: transforming metropolitan Doha into connected, human and resilinet urban settlements." In 55th ISOCARP World Planning Congress, Beyond Metropolis, Jakarta-Bogor, Indonesia. ISOCARP, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/imvt3881.
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Qatar is one of few Middle Eastern oil producing countries that realized the vitality of a needed swift transformation from resources to knowledge economy. Until a few decades ago, Qatar was dominated by nomadic people whose livelihood depended on fishing, pearling, camel breeding, and fishing ships building. However, the discovery of oil and gas has encouraged not only socio-economic change, but environmental change as well. The discussed account will cover the main strategies adopted by the country to create a distinctive model of development in the Middle East. The study also analyzes the shift over the past decade which reveals how Qatar views investments in knowledge-based urban development as essential vehicles to survive in a globalized and competitive world. More significantly, the study illustrates an interesting form of urban resilience in the face of major challenges which faced Qatar in the last decade including, winning the bid to host the FIFA World Cup 2022, the decline of oil prices and the air, sea and ground blockade imposed by its adjacent neighbors. The study sheds light on different urban planning strategies and policies adopted to shift the focus from creating a mega city with an image which resonate with typical global cities to a more sustainable, resilient, knowledge-based and decentralized urbanity. The model of Qatar is analyzed holistically in the paper to go form the strategic planning decisions all the way to case studies and best practice planning projects. The study demonstrates how Qatar has captured the world’s imagination by balancing global aspirations and local necessities in a sustainable and resilience context. This paper examines a framework for city and urban regions inspired by the theory of placemaking and its relevance to the boundaries of human urbanism. The paper sheds new light on the transformation of the city from a metropolitan exploiting the oil and gas revenues to a multi-centered model of urbanism. In doing so, the city adopted a number of significant strategies include the well distributed livable urban centers, transit-oriented development, introducing compacted urbanism and encouraging models of mixed use development. The paper concludes with a planning matrix which suggest that for Qatar, adopting such strategies and the deliberate move towards multi=centered urbanism is inevitable in the age of post globalizing world, the need for an urban human scale and the challenges of post Carbon paradigm.
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Princz-Jakovics, Tibor, and Dóra Bachmann. "Strategic evaluation of the railway traction energy supply development on the Hungarian railway network." In 6th International Conference on Road and Rail Infrastructure. University of Zagreb Faculty of Civil Engineering, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5592/co/cetra.2020.1045.
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Transformer substations are hidden elements of the railway infrastructure, they have a long service life and reliable operation. On this reason reconstruction of substations are often left out of railway development projects. The board responsible for railway development in the Ministry of Innovation and Technology has decided to set up a project dedicated to substation development. The purpose of our work was to assess, examine and supervise the current technical status, network role and future sustainability of railway substations in order to choose a set of substations to be reconstructed in the given cost framework. We completed traction energy simulations to explore the weak points of the traction energy supply system and to provide basic data for the planning process. In our feasibility study we chose 20 of 38 substations to be reconstructed in a multi-step decision process. On Level 1 we assessed professional and operational aspects with multi-criteria analysis (MCA) regarding capacity shortages, energy efficiency, existence of remote control, characteristics of environmental protection and climate resilience, age-related failures, unit performance and network assessment. Based on the multi-criteria analysis we formed feasible technological options. To quantify and compare their long-term financial effects, on Level 2 we have chosen cost-effectiveness analysis methodology considering investment cost and the operational costs incurred during the estimated evaluation period. After option analysis we conducted cost-benefit analysis (CBA). Savings at social level are considered benefits in economic terms. As the type of the intervention did not fit the relevant CBA guide, we had to elaborate a special methodology for the assessment of economic benefits of the project. After all we have set up three project packages (6 or 9 or 20 substations) depending on available funding sources – and all three project packages can be regarded as economically viable and eligible for financing and implementation.
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Sijakovic, Milan, and Ana Peric. "Sustainable architecture and urban design: a tool towards resilient built environment." In Post-Oil City Planning for Urban Green Deals Virtual Congress. ISOCARP, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47472/nmbx1502.
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Simply understood as ‘seeking opportunities out of crises’, resilience seems to be a universal approach to cope with contemporary global challenges, such as changing climate, rapid urbanisation, loss of biodiversity, migrations, etc. As a majority of the current problems are of urban origin – i.e. they emerge in cities, where they also cause significant consequences on people, ecosystems and infrastructures, it is a city and its territorial sub-elements (district, neighbourhood, site, and building) that provide a prolific field for exploring the mechanisms towards resilient governance, planning and design. Under such an overarching agenda of urban resilience, in this paper, we focus on exploring the components of architectural and urban design as a tool for mitigating climate change. More precisely, as carbon dioxide emitted from the built environment is released into the atmosphere at an unprecedented rate, we explore the design patterns that help reduce CO2 emissions to finally lessen the vulnerability index of urban systems. Scrutinising the relationship between the climate change and construction industry, we elucidate the concepts like sustainable construction, green buildings, and design for climate, among others. Finally, through the assessment of the adaptive reuse project in London, this paper identifies strategies of sustainable architectural and urban design aimed at curbing the effects of climate change and helping increase urban resilience.
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Jackson, Matt, and Timothy Savery. "Flood Resilience Code Impacts: Case Studies of Recently Completed Projects in New York City." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.2619.
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<p>The New York City area has seen a seen a tremendous amount of investment in retrofitting existing buildings and infrastructure to enhance flood resilience following Superstorm Sandy. At the same time revisions to the FEMA maps and to the New York City code, have captured ever more buildings within the flood zones, and required these buildings to be designed to higher elevations and more resilient standards.</p><p>This paper reviews some of the impacts the appendix G requirements are having on the design of new buildings in the NYC area. Case studies are presented for recently completed new construction in A zone, Costal A, and V zones, illustrating some of the challenges that arise, and limitations that code requirement present in a dense urban environment.</p>
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Nasab, Maxim D. "Prescribing Bridge Architecture for Social Resilience." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.1791.
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<p>Communities can have the most beautiful buildings and parks, but if their infrastructure continues to be designed in the often misquoted “form ever follows function” mentality, it will always be the weakest link of any city. Shouldn’t we start investing in the beauty of our cities for future generations? Is beauty not also a function that can have a profound return on investment to the surrounding communities?</p><p>This paper explores how we can prescribe language in RFPs, which integrate aesthetics and bridge architects efficiently within infrastructure projects, so aesthetics can be implemented while cost be greatly minimized. Today, aesthetics should no longer be an option. It should be required on any bridge project that has visibility and should not be limited to reveals and ornamental railings. Rather it should blend within the project so seamlessly that it becomes integral to the structure. When successful it resonates through communities, regions, and countries. It brings people closer towards a common goal, a common agreement. Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder but in the eye of the masses. By creating collaborative environments between engineers, architects, and builders we will be able to work together as a team towards a common goal where we can design and build socially responsible, successful and everlasting bridges for our cities.</p>
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Širovnik, Nuša, and Igor Vrečko. "Agile Project Management as a Multi-Level Resilience Antecedent." In Challenges in Economics and Business in the Post-COVID Times. University of Maribor Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18690/um.epf.5.2022.29.
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The goal of this paper is to introduce evidence that an agile approach to project management could be a source of resilience at the individual, team and organisational levels in the current projectified environment. This article is designed as a review paper. The authors first discuss the trends and recent findings in projectification and then in resilience. In the continuation, the authors highlight the connections between these areas, which to date have not been widely discussed in existing literature, as well as where agile project management could be of great importance. Dependencies between projectification, resilience and agile project management are evident. Agile project management could be considered as an antecedent for multi-level resilience, however, empirical evidence supporting this claim does not yet exist, therefore the issue should be further investigated. Enough evidence has been collected to understand that it would be worth further investigating the dependencies between these concepts, as there is an opportunity to fill some gaps in existing academic knowledge and also create a hands-on practical contribution for contemporary organisations
Reports on the topic "Environmental resilience projects"
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O'Donnell, Emily. Delivering multiple co-benefits in Blue-Green Cities. Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), June 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.55203/pclw1513.
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Global cities face a range of water challenges, driven by increasingly frequent and extreme storm events, drier summers, accelerating urbanisation and reductions in public green space. Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) and Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) are increasingly being used to address challenges across the full water spectrum while tackling social, economic and environmental issues. In April 2021, the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) hosted an online knowledge exchange event to explore the multiple co-benefits of Blue-Green Cities, and how these can overcome the biophysical, socio-political and societal barriers to innovation in urban flood and water management. This briefing paper draws together discussion from that event, framed by geographical research in the Blue-Green Cities (www.bluegreencities.ac.uk) and Urban Flood Resilience (www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk) projects, to give recommendations to enable greater implementation of BGI in policy and practice.
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Perrault, Anne, and Stephen Leonard. The Green Climate Fund: Accomplishing a Paradigm Shift? Rights and Resources Initiative, October 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.53892/mkmz2578.
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The Green Climate Fund (GCF), established in 2010 at the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), is now the world’s largest climate financing institution. It has a current investment portfolio of 43 approved projects totaling around US$2 billion, and has 48 Accredited Entities (AEs) to support implementation, including UN agencies, banks, NGOs, and private companies. Through its investments, the GCF aims to achieve a paradigm shift in developing countries, toward low-emissions development and climate resilience. GCF investments must indicate whether and how they could impact Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and women who are most at risk from the adverse effects of climate change (e.g. via environmental and social management plans). These goals, however, are currently being challenged by inadequacies in the Fund’s policies and frameworks. GCF safeguards fail to recognize the critical contributions of rural peoples to the maintenance of ecosystem services that are essential to international climate and development objectives, and to offer adequate protection for their land and resource rights. Drawing on international standards and GCF policy documents, this report traces the adequacy and implementation effectiveness of the Fund’s current institutional frameworks across a representative sample of approved projects. Noting critical gaps in nearly every aspect of the Fund’s operational modalities and project approval processes, the report calls on the GCF to take progressive steps to make Indigenous Peoples’ and local communities’ rights a key part of its climate actions going forward.
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Murphy, Maureen, Rachel Carey, and Leila Alexandra. The resilience of Melbourne's food system to climate and pandemic shocks. University of Melbourne, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.46580/124370.
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This report from the Foodprint Melbourne project summarises the findings of an investigation into the resilience of Melbourne’s food system to shocks and stresses. It focuses particularly on the resilience of Melbourne’s food system to climate and pandemic shocks and stresses. However, it also considers longer term underlying stresses on Melbourne’s food system from declining supplies of natural resources and environmental degradation. The report discusses the impacts of shocks and stresses throughout the food system from food production to consumption and the generation of waste. It identifies vulnerabilities in the city’s food system to these shocks and stresses, and it discusses the features of a resilient food system.
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Van Hemelrijck, Adinda. Resilience in Bangladesh: Impact Evaluation of the Promoting Sustainable Building in Bangladesh (PSBiB) Project. Oxfam GB, January 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21201/2020.5617.
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The ‘Promoting Sustainable Building in Bangladesh’ (PSBiB) project was implemented together with 3 partner organizations between 2016 and 2019. It aimed to reduce the negative impacts of the construction and house building industry in Bangladesh on the environment, livelihoods and communities, by enabling a transition from unsustainable Traditional Bricks (TB) to sustainable Alternative Building Blocks (AB). This Effectiveness Review examines the effectiveness and relevance of the PSBiB project, with a focus on policy changes and contributions to strengthening the country’s resilience. It adopted the Participatory Impact Assessment and Learning Approach (PIALA) as well as Contribution Tracing. The results provide evidence that the project’s strategies and interventions were significant and relevant in achieving the necessary changes in policies and legislation for promoting sustainable building materials and halting the extraction of topsoil from fertile land and protected areas. The evaluation also investigates the project’s contributions to triggering the market and to the capacities of resilience. Find out more by reading the full report now.
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Chambers, Katherine, and Waleska Echevarria-Doyle. Applying resilience concepts to inland river system. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/40743.
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As environmental uncertainty increases, incorporating resilience into project assessments, research recommendations, and future plans is becoming even more critical. This US Army Engineer Research and Development Center special report (SR) demonstrates how the concepts of resilience can be applied in a uniform framework and illustrates this framework through existing case studies on large inland river systems. This SR presents the concepts of resilience in inland river systems, the application of these concepts across disciplines, basic parameters of a resilience assessment, and the challenges and opportunities available for incorporating a more holistic approach to understanding resilience of the US Army Corps of Engineers mission areas on inland rivers. Finally, these concepts are demonstrated in several case studies in the United States to exemplify how these parameters have been applied to improve the overall performance of the system.
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Milek, Karen, and Richard Jones, eds. Science in Scottish Archaeology: ScARF Panel Report. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, September 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.06.2012.193.
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The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarised under four key headings: High quality, high impact research: the importance of archaeological science is reflected in work that explores issues connected to important contemporary topics, including: the demography of, the nature of movement of, and contact between peoples; societal resilience; living on the Atlantic edge of Europe; and coping with environmental and climatic change. A series of large-scale and integrated archaeological science projects are required to stimulate research into these important topics. To engage fully with Science in Scottish Archaeology iv these questions data of sufficient richness is required that is accessible, both within Scotland and internationally. The RCAHMS’ database Canmore provides a model for digital dissemination that should be built on. Integration: Archaeological science should be involved early in the process of archaeological investigation and as a matter of routine. Resultant data needs to be securely stored, made accessible and the research results widely disseminated. Sources of advice and its communication must be developed and promoted to support work in the commercial, academic, research, governmental and 3rd sectors. Knowledge exchange and transfer: knowledge, data and skills need to be routinely transferred and embedded across the archaeological sector. This will enable the archaeological science community to better work together, establishing routes of communication and improving infrastructure. Improvements should be made to communication between different groups including peers, press and the wider public. Mechanisms exist to enable the wider community to engage with, and to feed into, the development of the archaeological and scientific database and to engage with current debates. Projects involving the wider community in data generation should be encouraged and opportunities for public engagement should be pursued through, for example, National Science Week and Scottish Archaeology Month. Networks and forums: A network of specialists should be promoted to aid collaboration, provide access to the best advice, and raise awareness of current work. This would be complemented by creating a series inter-disciplinary working groups, to discuss and articulate archaeological science issues. An online service to match people (i.e. specialist or student) to material (whether e.g. environmental sample, artefactual assemblage, or skeletal assemblage) is also recommended. An annual meeting should also be held at which researchers would be able to promote current and future work, and draw attention to materials available for analysis, and to specialists/students looking to work on particular assemblages or projects. Such meetings could be rolled into a suitable public outreach event.
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Fan, Mingyuan. Green Urban Planning: Lessons from Mongolia on Climate Proofing Cities in Cold Regions. Asian Development Bank, December 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/wps220613-2.
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This paper identifies lessons for urban planning in cold climates from an Asian Development Bank pilot project in Mongolia. In cold climates, urban design needs to take into account local topography, standards of living, and microclimatic conditions of the built environment. This paper highlights ways of integrating climate-sensitive design into urban centers to promote resilience, infrastructure efficiency, and livability.
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Yao, Yixin, Mingyuan Fan, Arnaud Heckmann, and Corazon Posadas. Transformative Solutions and Green Finance in the People’s Republic of China and Mongolia. Asian Development Bank Institute, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56506/xfvh2542.
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Asia has experienced widespread transformation and growth, accompanied by increased demographic pressure, greater intensification of agricultural production, industrialization, and urbanization. This economic growth has been very resource- and carbon-intensive, while climate change has triggered or exacerbated behaviors and defense mechanisms that have come at the expense of the natural environment. Therefore, we examine and compare three Asian Development Bank (ADB) projects in two member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation: one in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and two in Mongolia that relate to sustainable green development and use innovative financial mechanisms, and behavior-changing nudges. We provide comparative analyses and aim to demonstrate effective, innovative, and sustainable green finance and green transformation approaches in these two countries to address these pressures. The ADB–PRC loan for the Anhui Huangshan Xin’an River Ecological Protection and Green Development project aims to help Huangshan municipality reduce water pollution in the Xin’an River Basin, which is part of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. The project is piloting innovative green financing mechanisms to reduce rural pollution and complement the ongoing interprovincial eco-compensation scheme while supporting green agroecological businesses through two interventions: the Green Investment Fund and the Green Incentive Mechanism. In Mongolia, ADB and the Government of Mongolia have developed two large-scale transformative projects using integrated design and innovative green financing mechanisms to leverage private sector investment: (i) Aimags and Soums Green Regional Development Investment Program, which aims to promote green urban–rural linkages, green agribusiness development, natural capital, rangeland regeneration, and soil carbon sequestration through the (ii) Ulaanbaatar Green Affordable Housing and Resilient Urban Renewal Project, which aims to transform Ulaanbaatar’s vulnerable and substandard peri-urban areas into low-carbon, resilient eco-districts that provide access to green affordable housing.
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Bietsch, Kristin, Reshma Naik, Kristen Patterson, Cara Honzak, Mustafa Kudrati, Hellen Magige, Cheryl Margoluis, et al. Analyzing the building blocks of resilience: Findings from a baseline survey of the Tuungane Population, Health, and Environment Project in western Tanzania. Population Council, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.31899/rh8.1053.
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Ormstrup Vestergård, Louise, and Lars Johan Rustad. Food self-sufficiency in five Nordic island societies. Nordregio, August 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.6027/pb2022:4.2001-3876.
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Increasing food self-sufficiency means rethinking global supply chains, (re-)adapting to local contexts, and ensuring optimal conditions for selling and buying locally produced food. Increased self-sufficiency and improved local food systems can have positive environmental, social, and economic consequences. However, whether increased self-sufficiency adds to more sustainable food systems depends on myriad factors, including production methods, the type of food in question, and the availability of local food on the local market. Previous research shows that local food production does not automatically equate to sustainable food production. This project sought to increase knowledge of how greater food self-sufficiency can contribute to increased sustainability and resilience in the food systems of five Nordic island societies: Bornholm, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, and Åland.