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Book Resilience  Crisis and Innovation Dynamics

Download or read book Resilience Crisis and Innovation Dynamics written by Tüzin Baycan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilience has emerged as a recurrent notion to explain how territorial socio-economic systems adapt successfully (or not) to negative events. In this book, the authors use resilience as a bridging notion to connect different types of theoretical and empirical approaches to help understand the impacts of economic turbulence at the system and actor levels. The book provides a unique overview of the financial crisis and the important dimension of innovation dynamics for regional resilience. It also offers an engaging debate as to how regional resilience can be improved and explores the social aspects of vulnerability, resilience and innovation.

Book Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts  1200   1840

Download or read book Resilience and Recovery at Royal Courts 1200 1840 written by Fabian Persson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-20 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the evolution of resilience and recovery as a concept by applying it to a new context, that of courts and monarchies. These were remarkably resilient institutions, with a strength and malleability that allowed them to ‘bounce back’ time and again. This volume highlights the different forms of resilience displayed in European courts during the medieval and early modern periods. Drawing on rarely published sources, it demonstrates different models of monarchical resilience, ranging from the survival of sovereign authority in political crisis, to the royal response to pandemic challenges, to other strategies for resisting internal or external threats. Resilience and Recovery illustrates how symbolic legitimacy and effective power were strongly intertwined, creating a distinct collective memory that shaped the defence of monarchical authority over many centuries.

Book Borderlands Resilience

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  • Author : Dorte Jagetic Andersen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-12-28
  • ISBN : 1000532844
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Borderlands Resilience written by Dorte Jagetic Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers new insights into the current, highly complex border transitions taking place at the EU internal and external border areas, as well as globally. It focuses on new frontiers and intersections between borders, borderlands and resilience, developing new understandings of resilience through the prism of borders. The book provides new perspectives into how different groups of people and communities experience, adapt and resist the transitions and uncertainties of border closures and securitization in their everyday and professional lives. The book also provides new methodological guidelines for the study of borders and multi-sited bordering and resilience processes. The book bridges border studies and social scientific resilience research in new and innovative. It will be of interest to students and scholars in geography, political studies, international relations, security studies and anthropology.

Book The Future of U S Hungary Relations

Download or read book The Future of U S Hungary Relations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resilient Welfare States in the European Union

Download or read book Resilient Welfare States in the European Union written by Anton Hemerijck and published by Comparative Political Economy. This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European welfare systems, established after the Second World War, have been under sustained attack since the late 1970s from the neoliberal drive towards a small state and from the market as the foremost instrument for the efficient allocation of scarce resources. After the 2008 financial crash, Europe's high tax and generous benefits welfare states were, once again, blamed for economic stagnation and political immobilism. If anything, on the contrary, the long decade of the Great Recession proved that the welfare state remained a fundamental asset in hard times, stabilizing the economy, protecting households and individuals from poverty, reconciling gendered work and family life, while improving the skills and competences needed in Europe's knowledge economy and ageing society. Finally, the Covid-19 pandemic has, unsuprisingly, brought back into the limelight the productive role of welfare systems in guaranteeing basic security, human capabilities, economic opportunities and democratic freedoms. In this important contribution, Anton Hemerijck and Robin Huguenot-Noel examine the nature of European welfare provision and the untruths that surround it. They evaluate the impact of the austerity measures that followed the Great Recession, and consider its future design to better equip European societies to face social change, from global competition to accelerated demographic ageing, the digitization of work and climate change. Book jacket.

Book Alternative Food Networks for Sustainable  Just  Resilient and Productive Food Systems

Download or read book Alternative Food Networks for Sustainable Just Resilient and Productive Food Systems written by José Luis Vicente-Vicente and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is growing evidence that the current globalised agri-food system is neither sustainable nor resilient. It is responsible for around one third of the global GHG emissions and is a major driver of biodiversity loss. Furthermore, its structure and distribution mode do not provide food security for all and foster socio-economic inequalities between different parts of the planet. Consequently, an increasing number of scientists and members of the civil society are demanding a radical transformation of agri-food systems. The creation of alternative food networks (AFNs) represent a possible first step towards agri-food system transformation. AFNs can incorporate local, indigenous and innovative knowledge and bring together a diversity of actors to connect food production and consumption and create new practices and relationships around food. The creation of AFNs, and ultimately of Alternative Food Systems (AFS), should involve different actors, from farmers to social movements, from policymakers to scientists. AFNs have the potential to contribute to a transformation towards sustainable, just, resilient and productive food systems, but even though they have increased in numbers and organisational forms in recent years, they still remain in a niche. Consequently, scientific evidence of their performance is still limited. This research topic will contribute to a comprehensive, multi-scalar and critical (e.g. including potential counter-effects) understanding of the current state and future potential of AFNs. It will address multiple aspects, ranging from social, economic and environmental aspects to productivity, participation and justice. Moreover, it will highlight the role of governance, power relations and institutions, as well as barriers and ways forward to promote AFNs and their role in food system transformation.

Book Migrants  Rights  Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe

Download or read book Migrants Rights Populism and Legal Resilience in Europe written by Vladislava Stoyanova and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars of migration and constitutional law, this volume analyses the problematic relationship between the rise of populism, restrictions of migrants' rights and democratic decay in Europe. By offering both constructive and critical accounts, it creates a nuanced debate on the possibilities for and limitations of legal resilience against populist erosion of migrants' rights. Crucially, it does not merely diagnose the causes of restrictions of migrants' rights, but also proposes how the law might be used as a solution. In this volume, the law is considered as both a source of resilience and part of the problem at three distinct levels: the legal-theoretical, the European, and the national level. It is a major contribution to the literature on migrants' rights, offering a nuanced account of how legal resilience might be used to safeguard migrants' rights against further erosion in populist times. This book is available as Open Access.

Book Software Engineering for Resilient Systems

Download or read book Software Engineering for Resilient Systems written by Alessandro Fantechi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2015, held in Paris, France, in September 2015. The 10 revised technical papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on development of resilient systems, verification, validation and evaluation of resilience, case studies and applications.

Book Regions and Economic Resilience

Download or read book Regions and Economic Resilience written by Raul Ramos and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term “resilience” originated in environmental studies and describes one’s biological capacity to adapt and thrive under adverse environmental conditions. Regional economic resilience is defined as the capacity of a territory’s economy to resist and/or recover quickly from external shocks, often even improving on its prior situation (before the shock). The contributions in this book analyse different channels related to processes of mitigation (resistance–recovery) and adaptive resilience (reorientation–renewal), in a wide variety of geographical settings and scales. While the different chapters include relevant methodological advances in this literature, they also obtain relevant results from a policy perspective. Moreover, the wide spectrum of topics and analyses among the contributions in this book extend the current framework, to analyse regional economic resilience, from the intersection of several disciplines involving geographers, economists and demographers, as well as environmental scientists.

Book Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery

Download or read book Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery written by Lenka Slavíková and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial schemes for flood recovery, if properly designed and implemented, might increase flood resilience. However, options for the increase of flood resilience during the recovery phase are to a large extent overlooked and the diversity of existing schemes shows that there has been a lack of consensus on how to achieve resilient flood recovery. Financial Schemes for Resilient Flood Recovery investigates how the implementation of financial schemes (government relief subsidies, insurance schemes, buy-outs, etc.) might increase flood resilience. The chapters included in this edited volume address the following questions: Shall government relief subsidies exist when there is flood insurance in place, and, if so, how might they both be coordinated? Where (or how) to decide about build back better incentives and where to go for planned relocation programs? What is the distributional equity of financial schemes for flood recovery, and has it been sufficiently treated? The book covers different approaches to flood recovery schemes with specific intervention rationales in different countries. Empirical evidence provided clearly shows the great diversity of financial flood recovery schemes. This diversity of state-funded schemes, private-based insurance schemes, and hybrids as well as planned relocation schemes indicates a lack of a consistent and strategic approach in flood risk management and flood resilience about flood recovery. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Environmental Hazards.

Book Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People

Download or read book Social and Economic Vulnerability of Roma People written by Maria Manuela Mendes and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access volume provides an understanding of the different aspects of success, school continuity and social mobility among European Roma, including the motives justifying the high rates of school dropout and failure among this group. It offers a critical and reflexive perspective about social reality from a multidisciplinary and transversal point of view, sharing knowledge and practices in different countries about the articulations between Roma families, individuals, school and public policies. Over time, there has been an increase in the educational attainment of European citizens, but there are still persistent inequalities between Roma and non-Roma, including gender inequalities, which greatly affect Roma women. The volume explores the issue of Roma education and includes chapters from Western European, South and Central and Eastern European researchers using different theoretical and methodological perspectives. The intersection of this diversity and plurality of standpoints makes possible to obtain a comprehensive view on the education and schooling of European Roma.

Book Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Resilience Along International Waters

Download or read book Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Resilience Along International Waters written by and published by UNEP/Earthprint. This book was released on 2009 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hydro-vulnerability of Europe is governed by the institutions created to resolve transboundary water issues in a cooperative manner that attempts to prevent potential conflict. Institutional capacity through water management bodies, treaties or generally positive international relations, is possibly more important than the physical environment for minimising hydropolitical vulnerability and conflict on the one hand, and strengthening resilience and cooperation on the other hand. This publication aims at a broader promotion and dissemination of assessed information and data that can support informed policy-making.

Book Populist Parties and Democratic Resilience

Download or read book Populist Parties and Democratic Resilience written by Ben Crum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populist Parties and Democratic Resilience focuses on populist parties as the main agents of populism and examines when these parties turn anti-democratic and when they remain loyal to the democratic system. Following the Brexit referendum, the election of Donald Trump, and the rise of populist parties around the globe, many observers suggested that democracy was in serious trouble. Nevertheless, while some democratic systems have been seized by populists, most of them have proven resilient. In this volume, the authors identify the conditions under which populist parties become inimical to political and societal pluralism. They offer in-depth analyses of the trajectory of populist parties in eleven European Union countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and Spain). The book shows that, reflecting the diversity of national contexts, there are multiple pathways whereby populist parties’ power can remain contained and subject to democratic checks and balances. Moreover, populist parties can — at times voluntarily, at other times by force of external conditions — come to adhere to the democratic rules of the game. On this basis, the volume outlines different ways in which European democracies can successfully accommodate populist parties through strategies that carefully navigate between the extremes of uncritical acceptance and outright ostracization. Drawing on the literature on democratic theory and comparative politics, this book directly contributes to the public debate on the state of democracy in Europe. It will be of interest to researchers of comparative politics, European politics, party politics, democracy, and populism.

Book Proceedings of VIAC 2022 in Budapest

Download or read book Proceedings of VIAC 2022 in Budapest written by Group of Authors and published by Czech Institute of Academic Education. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Academic Conferences: Management, Economics and Marketing (IAC-MEM) Teaching, Learning and E-learning (IAC-TLEl) Transport, Logistics, Tourism and Sport Science (IAC-TLTS) Engineering, Robotics, IT and Nanotechnology (IAC-ERITN)

Book Reorganization and Resilience of Food Supply Chains According to Current International Crisis Scenario

Download or read book Reorganization and Resilience of Food Supply Chains According to Current International Crisis Scenario written by Gioacchino Pappalardo and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current international scenario with the war in Ukraine will have potential impacts on agri-food systems across the world. This scenario will change the balance of power among actors in the agri-food sector. High margins of uncertainty are common across supply chains in the face of uncontrolled increases in raw material prices and an uncertain guarantee of supply. This uncertainty is compounded by rising energy prices, putting the entire agrifood supply chain, which is highly energy-intensive, in crisis. In addition, the current war scenario could impact the demand for agricultural and food products by changing consumers' purchasing habits. Increasing the resilience of agri-food systems may need to become a priority for many national economic systems. In this scenario, the routes to achieve resilient agrifood systems are numerous and include reducing agriculture's dependence on energy, energy-intensive imports and raw material imports. Resilience also requires diversified import sources and market outlets through sound multilateral and bilateral trade policy.

Book Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience

Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience written by Richard McNeil-Willson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time of great global uncertainty and instability, communities face fracturing from the increasing influence of extremist movements hostile to democratic and multicultural norms. Europe and the West have grown increasingly polarised in recent years, beset with financial crises, political instability, the rise of malicious actors and irregular violence, and new forms of media and social media. These factors have enabled the spread of new forms of extremism and suggest a growing need for a response sensitive to inequalities and divisions in wider society – a task made even more urgent by the COVID- 19 pandemic. The Routledge Handbook of Violent Extremism and Resilience brings together research conducted throughout Europe and the world, to analyse various articulations of violent extremism and consider the impact that such groups and networks have had on the wellbeing of communities and societies. It examines different theories, factors, and national case studies of extremism, polarisation, and societal fragmentation, drilling deep into national examples to map trends across Europe, North America, and Australasia, to provide regional and state-level comparative analysis. It also offers a thorough exploration of resilience – a recent addition to counterextremism policy and practice – to consider how it has come to play this increasingly central role in Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism (P/ CVE), the limitations and opportunities of such approaches, and how it could be shared, developed, problematised, and deployed in response to violence and polarisation. The Handbook details new trends in both violent extremism and counter-extremism response, within this increasingly fractured global context. It critically explores the latest theories of community violence, extremism, polarisation, and resilience, mapping them across case study countries. In doing so, it presents new findings for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to understand these new patterns of polarisation and extremism and develop community-driven responses.

Book Hungarian Uprising 1956

Download or read book Hungarian Uprising 1956 written by A.J. Kingston and published by A.J. Kingston. This book was released on 2023 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the "Hungarian Uprising 1956: The Forgotten Revolution" Book Bundle Step back in time and immerse yourself in the tumultuous era of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 with our captivating book bundle, "Hungarian Uprising 1956: The Forgotten Revolution." This meticulously curated collection brings to life the untold stories, the courageous acts, and the profound impact of one of the most significant but often overlooked revolutions in history. Book 1: "Sparks of Rebellion: The Prelude to the Hungarian Uprising" takes you on a riveting journey through the social, political, and economic landscape of post-World War II Hungary. Uncover the seeds of dissent, the simmering discontent, and the events that ignited the spark of rebellion. This volume sets the stage for the explosive events that would soon unfold. Book 2: "Days of Fury: The Hungarian Uprising Unleashed" thrusts you into the heart of the uprising itself. Experience the intense emotions, the relentless fighting, and the unwavering spirit of the Hungarian people as they took to the streets to challenge Soviet domination. This gripping account brings the fury, the courage, and the sacrifices of the uprising vividly to life. Book 3: "Silent Voices: The Aftermath of the Hungarian Uprising" delves into the harrowing aftermath of the revolution. Explore the repercussions faced by the Hungarian people in the wake of Soviet intervention, the enduring scars left on the nation, and the challenges of rebuilding a shattered society. This volume offers a profound reflection on the human cost and the long-lasting impact of the uprising. Book 4: "Resilient Hearts: Remembering the Hungarian Uprising" pays homage to the indomitable spirit of the Hungarian people and the enduring legacy of the uprising. Discover how the events of 1956 shaped Hungarian identity, inspired future movements for freedom, and left an indelible mark on the collective memory of the nation. This volume explores the importance of remembering the uprising and passing down its lessons to future generations. With this book bundle, you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. From the prelude to the aftermath, from the intense battles to the lasting impact, each volume is meticulously researched and beautifully written, offering a deep dive into this forgotten revolution. Whether you are a history enthusiast, a scholar, or simply curious about this pivotal moment in Hungarian history, the "Hungarian Uprising 1956: The Forgotten Revolution" book bundle is an invaluable addition to your library. It is a chance to uncover the hidden narratives, honor the heroes, and engage with the profound human drama that unfolded during those tumultuous times. Don't miss out on this exceptional opportunity to delve into the forgotten revolution that shaped the course of Hungarian history. Order your copy of the "Hungarian Uprising 1956: The Forgotten Revolution" book bundle today and embark on a captivating journey into the heart of a nation's struggle for freedom and independence.