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Book A Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience written by Emmanuel Lazega and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge Research Agenda demonstrates how social network analysis can be used to address problems of social resilience and advance knowledge and policy intervention in the face of the existential crises that threaten our contemporary societies. Highlighting the role of social networks in supporting social resilience, contributions from experienced and innovative thinkers across the social sciences encourage readers to think in network terms about issues of social change and survival in situations of vulnerability. Chapters apply innovative social network thinking and analyses to a diverse range of existential societal challenges, including marginalized communities, emerging labour markets, governments, food systems, educational establishments, online social media, and the environment. The book further advances critical research frontiers that will inform the building of more resilient societies and ecosystems and ultimately strengthen our capacity to project ourselves into the future. Combining network-based critical analysis with in-depth knowledge of policy design and intervention, this dynamic Research Agenda will be an essential tool for postgraduate students carrying out research in the social sciences. Its provision of state-of-the-art research agendas in eighteen vital domains of social life will benefit analysts and consultants designing, implementing, and evaluating policy in these areas.

Book A Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Social Networks and Social Resilience written by Emmanuel Lazega and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge Research Agenda demonstrates how social network analysis can be used to address problems of social resilience and advance knowledge and policy intervention in the face of the existential crises that threaten our contemporary societies. This title contains one or more Open Access chapters.

Book Applications of Social Network Analysis for Building Community Disaster Resilience

Download or read book Applications of Social Network Analysis for Building Community Disaster Resilience written by Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and published by . This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the identification of the relationships and attributes of members, key actors, and groups that social networks comprise. The National Research Council, at the request of the Department of Homeland Security, held a two-day workshop on the use of SNA for the purpose of building community disaster resilience. The workshop, summarized in this volume, was designed to provide guidance to the DHS on a potential research agenda that would increase the effectiveness of SNA for improving community disaster resilience. The workshop explored the state of the art in SNA and its applications in the identification, construction, and strengthening of networks within U.S. communities. Workshop participants discussed current work in SNA focused on characterizing networks; the theories, principles and research applicable to the design or strengthening of networks; the gaps in knowledge that prevent the application of SNA to the construction of networks; and research areas that could fill those gaps. Elements of a research agenda to support the design, development, and implementation of social networks for the specific purpose of strengthening community resilience against natural and human-made disasters were discussed.

Book A Research Agenda for Social Innovation

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Social Innovation written by Howaldt, Ju_rgen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This insightful Research Agenda offers unique perspectives into the different strands of social innovation research, covering the history and theory of this ever-growing research field. Chapters show the range and depth of the social advances that characterize this vibrant and contested subject, and analyse the strong increase in political and public interest in social innovation.

Book Applications of Social Network Analysis for Building Community Disaster Resilience

Download or read book Applications of Social Network Analysis for Building Community Disaster Resilience written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Network Analysis (SNA) is the identification of the relationships and attributes of members, key actors, and groups that social networks comprise. The National Research Council, at the request of the Department of Homeland Security, held a two-day workshop on the use of SNA for the purpose of building community disaster resilience. The workshop, summarized in this volume, was designed to provide guidance to the DHS on a potential research agenda that would increase the effectiveness of SNA for improving community disaster resilience. The workshop explored the state of the art in SNA and its applications in the identification, construction, and strengthening of networks within U.S. communities. Workshop participants discussed current work in SNA focused on characterizing networks; the theories, principles and research applicable to the design or strengthening of networks; the gaps in knowledge that prevent the application of SNA to the construction of networks; and research areas that could fill those gaps. Elements of a research agenda to support the design, development, and implementation of social networks for the specific purpose of strengthening community resilience against natural and human-made disasters were discussed.

Book Social Interactions  Resilience  and Access to Economic Opportunity

Download or read book Social Interactions Resilience and Access to Economic Opportunity written by Theresa Kuchler and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We argue that the increasing availability of digital trace data presents substantial opportunities for researchers and policy makers to better understand the importance of social networks and social interactions in fostering economic opportunity and resilience. We review recent research efforts that have studied these questions using data from a wide range of sources, including online social networking platform such as Facebook, call detail record data, and network data from payment systems. We also describe opportunities for expanding these research agendas by using other digital trace data, and discuss various promising paths to increase researcher access to the required data, which is often collected and owned by private corporations.

Book Disaster Resilience

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  • Author : National Academies
  • Publisher : National Academies Press
  • Release : 2012-12-29
  • ISBN : 0309261503
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Disaster Resilience written by National Academies and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-12-29 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its communities. Communities and the nation thus face difficult fiscal, social, cultural, and environmental choices about the best ways to ensure basic security and quality of life against hazards, deliberate attacks, and disasters. Beyond the unquantifiable costs of injury and loss of life from disasters, statistics for 2011 alone indicate economic damages from natural disasters in the United States exceeded $55 billion, with 14 events costing more than a billion dollars in damages each. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience-the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book's authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses-rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.

Book Cooperation in Value Creating Networks

Download or read book Cooperation in Value Creating Networks written by Josef Wieland and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis

Download or read book The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis written by John McLevey and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 951 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The Sage Handbook of Social Network Analysis builds on the success of its predecessor, offering a comprehensive overview of social network analysis produced by leading international scholars in the field. Brand new chapters provide both significant updates to topics covered in the first edition, as well as discussing cutting edge topics that have developed since, including new chapters on: · General issues such as social categories and computational social science; · Applications in contexts such as environmental policy, gender, ethnicity, cognition and social media and digital networks; · Concepts and methods such as centrality, blockmodeling, multilevel network analysis, spatial analysis, data collection, and beyond. By providing authoritative accounts of the history, theories and methodology of various disciplines and topics, the second edition of The SAGE Handbook of Social Network Analysis is designed to provide a state-of-the-art presentation of classic and contemporary views, and to lay the foundations for the further development of the area. PART 1: GENERAL ISSUES PART 2: APPLICATIONS PART 3: CONCEPTS AND METHODS

Book A Research Agenda for the Gig Economy and Society

Download or read book A Research Agenda for the Gig Economy and Society written by Valerio De Stefano and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the gig economy from both a labour and employment perspective, this Research Agenda goes beyond the question of the employment status of platform workers. It investigates how the gig economy is changing the way people work, how the platforms’ business models are spreading in our economies, and what labour and social institutions are needed to respond to the challenges that platform work raises.

Book A Research Agenda for Strategic Human Resource Management

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Strategic Human Resource Management written by Peter D. Sherer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlightening Research Agenda considers the latest developments within the world of work, arguing that the time is right to address the variety of Human Resource Management (HRM) practices and arrangements.

Book A Research Agenda for Financial Crime

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Financial Crime written by Barry Rider and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely Research Agenda, Barry Rider has assembled a cast of internationally renowned experts to identify the most pressing questions and issues around financial crime, helping to inform our understanding of how best to protect our economies and financial institutions.

Book A Research Agenda for Small and Medium Sized Towns

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Small and Medium Sized Towns written by Heike Mayer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Exploring current debates on the topic, this book maps out an agenda for theory, research and practice about the role and function of small and medium-sized towns in various contexts and at different territorial scales. Chapters highlight new insights and approaches to studying small and medium-sized towns, moving beyond the ‘urban bias’ to provide nuanced thought on these spaces both in terms of their relation to larger cities, and in terms of implications related to their size.

Book A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Intelligence Studies and Government written by Robert Dover and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Research Agenda explores the academic field of intelligence studies and how it is developing into an increasingly international and diverse area of study.

Book A Research Agenda for Sustainable Tourism

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Sustainable Tourism written by Stephen F. McCool and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring tourism in an increasingly valuable landscape, this forward-looking book examines the importance of the sustainability of global travel. Leading authors in the field outline the major trajectories for research helpful in developing a sustainable and environmentally-minded industry.

Book A Research Agenda for Service Marketing

Download or read book A Research Agenda for Service Marketing written by Olivier Furrer and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking Research Agenda provides unique insight into the evolution and development of service marketing. Expert contributors present an in-depth overview of the current state of the field, and critically analyse the diverse range of future directions available to researchers.

Book Social Resilience  A Primer for All  Enhance Social Experiences and Foster Social Resilience

Download or read book Social Resilience A Primer for All Enhance Social Experiences and Foster Social Resilience written by Azher Hameed Qamar and published by Amazon. This book was released on 2024-05-11 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social resilience is a dynamic concept that is complex and embedded in human-environment interactions and contextual diversities. Also, the interdependence of human in the social world evolves and contributes to their transformation with changing environments. "Social Resilience: A Primer for Everyone" is a pocketbook and a guide to a more fulfilling social life and comprehensive social well-being. After three years of intensive research to understand the concept of social resilience, I explored it in a number of contexts (including social psychology, climate change, disaster, and migration studies). I discovered that it is ultimately linked to several levels of person-environment interaction, as well as our social experiences and practices. Social resilience is shaped by our social experiences and interactions with the political, economic, cultural, and social environments. It is essential to recognize and emphasize the 'social' in social resilience. I believe that social resilience should be a component of our leisure, education, and work lives as a way of living and road to well-being. This primer is designed to help everyone (including children) enhance their social lives by learning how to survive and flourish together. You will enjoy and learn by reading ABC of social resilience, followed by a list of 105 powerful keywords/actions used in this primer to characterise social resilience for all. This book will show the reader how to master the art of surviving and thriving together.