Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective
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This volume provides an economic framework for analyzing resilience through societal, environmental, and personal security lenses. It defines economic resilience and presents a metric for its application in decision-making. The book explores resilience as a coping mechanism for crises like natural disasters and terrorism, emphasizing its role in enhancing individual and societal capabilities. It connects resilience to vulnerability, adaptation, and sustainability, while examining its measurement across various dimensions. Additionally, it presents a risk-management framework and discusses the co-benefits of disaster risk management.
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Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective, Adam Rose
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- 2017
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- Title
- Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Adam Rose
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Singapore
- Publisher
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 136
- ISBN13
- 9789811015328
- Category
- Business and Economics, Ecology
- Description
- This volume provides an economic framework for analyzing resilience through societal, environmental, and personal security lenses. It defines economic resilience and presents a metric for its application in decision-making. The book explores resilience as a coping mechanism for crises like natural disasters and terrorism, emphasizing its role in enhancing individual and societal capabilities. It connects resilience to vulnerability, adaptation, and sustainability, while examining its measurement across various dimensions. Additionally, it presents a risk-management framework and discusses the co-benefits of disaster risk management.