Resilience and Resource Management

Resilience and Resource Management

Resilience is an umbrella concept with many different shades of meaning. The use of the term has grown over the past several decades to the point that by now, many disciplines have their own definitions and metrics. In this paper, we aim to provide a context and focus for linkages of resilience to natural resources management. We consider differences and similarities in resilience as presented ...

Research centers' ranking and resource management

In recent decade, there has been an increase in the number of research centers and the allocated budget and resources to research in Iran. These research centers show widely different performance and research impacts. Identifying the sources of such differences can help the research sector managers improve the effectiveness of distributed resources. This study was performed on 28 research cent...

Sustainability and Resilience in Natural Resource Systems: Policy Directions and Management Institutions

Shifting perspectives on resource management: Resilience and the Reconceptualization of 'Natural Resources' and

Conventional notions of ‘natural resources’ and ‘management’ are problematic because of their history, and they need to be reconceptualised. The term ‘resource’ carries a sense of ‘free goods’, human-centric use and commodification of nature; it can be revised to include the protection of ecosystem services for human well-being. The term ‘management’ implies domination of nature, efficiency, si...

Information Risk Management and Resilience

Are the levels of information risk management efforts within and between firms correlated with the resilience of the firms to information disruptions? This paper examines the question by considering the results of field studies of information risk management practices at organizations and in supply chains. The organizations investigated differ greatly in the degree of coupling from a general an...