Resilience is system specific rather than shock specific. This study proposes a new measure of engineering resilience based on the theories simple harmonic motion and regime switching, it examines determinants among China’s regional economies to 2008 subprime crisis. Enhancing industrial diversity, human capital stock, trade openness financial liberalization can improve economic resilience. Pre...

Researchers of adaptive capacity and sustainable livelihoods have frequently used social, cultural, human, economic and institutional capitals to better understand how rural and resource-dependent communities address environmental, social and economic stresses. Yet few studies have considered how men and women contribute differently to these capitals to support community resilience overall. Our...

objective: to compare resilience, positive/negative effect, and psychological vulnerability between fertile and infertile men. methods: the research sample consisted of 40 fertile and 40 infertile men who were selected among men who presented to an infertility clinic. to collect data, connor–davidson resilience scale, positive/negative affect schedule, and brief symptoms inventory were used. re...

Introduction Droughts are a frequent occurrence in South Africa’s arid and semi-arid rangelands and can have severe ecological and economic consequences. While these may be short-term and followed by recovery during subsequent years of higher rainfall, in some cases droughts can trigger substantial and irreversible ecological and socio-economic changes. Desertification, in the form of reduced p...

4 We estimate the business interruption (BI) impacts of ARkStorm, a severe winter storm scenario 5 developed by the U.S. Geological Survey and partners. BI stems from loss of building function, lost 6 productivity of agricultural land, and reduced lifeline services. We develop a dynamic computable 7 general equilibrium model of the California economy to perform this economic consequence analysi...

The Atlantic Forest is represented on the coast of Brazil by approximately 7.5% of remnants, much of these concentrated on the country's SE coast. Within these southeastern remnants, we still find the coastal Caiçaras who descend from Native Indians and Portuguese Colonizers. The maintenance of such populations, and their existence in spite of the deforestation that occurred on the Atlantic For...