Many have voiced concern about the long-term survival of coastal communities in the face of increasingly intense storms and sea level rise. In this study we select indicators of key theoretical concepts from the social-ecological resilience literature, aggregate those indicators into a resilience-capacity index, and calculate an index score for each of the 52 coastal counties of Louisiana, Texa...

discussion similar resilience scores in deaf and hearing participants may be due to appropriate interaction of deaf signers with family members and society. male deaf subjects were more resilient than female ones; studies should be done to examine the effects of cultural characteristics that may provide females with less communication opportunities than males. materials and methods this compara...

This paper establishes a water resources vulnerability framework based on sensitivity, natural resilience and artificial adaptation, through the analyses of the four states of the water system and its accompanying transformation processes. Furthermore, it proposes an analysis method for water resources vulnerability based on connection entropy, which extends the concept of contact entropy. An e...

Introduction: Although caregivers of people with dementia may face difficulties, some positive feelings of caregiving may be associated with resilience. Objective: This study systematically reviewed the definitions, methodological approaches and determinant models associated with resilience among caregivers of people with dementia. Methods: Search for articles published between 2003 and 2014 in...

This paper presents the results of a bibliometric analysis of the knowledge domains resilience, vulnerability and adaptation within the research activities on human dimensions of global environmental change. We analyzed how 2286 publications between 1967 and 2005 are related in terms of co-authorship relations, and citation relations. The number of publications in the three knowledge domains in...

Macro vulnerability of the small island developing states (SIDS) as well as of least developed countries (LDCs) has been an increasing concern for the international community. This concern has led to the creation of the economic vulnerability index (EVI) in order to assess comparatively the degree of structural economic vulnerability of countries. Structural vulnerability results mainly from na...

In this study, investigating the relationship between psychological birth order and resilience in university students was aimed. Also, it was examined whether or not the university students’ resilience differs in terms of gender and department variables. The sample of the study included 301 female (66. 9 %) 149 male (33.1 %), totally 450 undergraduate students attending the different department...