Strategic Adaptive Resilience Capacity

This chapter analyzes the adaptive resilience capacity as an organizational strategy. It is assumed that the development of organizational resilience capabilities can support the transformation and adaptation strategies aimed to enhance the socio ecosystem services. One of the organizational capabilities is organizational resilience assuming that adverse conditions have an impact on the organization which may remain vulnerable unless it learns new capabilities and actions, adapts to access changing resources, and creates iteratively new forms and opportunities with the available resources. It is concluded that a strategic adaptive capacity approach to organizational resilience supports the design and implementation of more flexible and progressive strategies to face any kind of environmental disturbances, crises, and shocks to become more competitive in the global marketplace environment.

REDUCING LOCAL ANTHROPOGENIC ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE MAY REDUCE GLOBAL EMERGING DISEASES

Ecological values of landscapes, like; biodiversity, connectivity and resilience capacity provide, biological well-being and cultural and economic development, which all needed for human development and health. As a result of rapid development, unplanned urbanization went against human will and health being, producing novel emerging diseases. For identifying the relationship between anthropogenic environmental changes and emerging diseases, the present study has considered the impact of ecological disconnectivity on environmental health and global emerging diseases.

The Application of Ecological Resilience to Urban Landscapes

<p>The understanding of resilience is a key concept for improving the adaptive capacity of cities to deal with and take benefits from unpredictable changes while keeping on evolving. However, in urbanism and architecture, a theoretical framework to use resilience in urban, landscape and architectural design is still needed. This thesis proposes an instrumental theory that can work as a link between the ecological theory of resilience and its utilisation in urban and architectural design. Through the implementation of this new knowledge, it should be possible to provide insight into the structures, dynamics and self-organizing processes that sustain the resilience capacity of cities. The research has developed a methodology for analysing the ecological resilience of urban landscapes using an urban morphological approach. The method has been tested on case studies in Auckland, New Zealand, and Tokyo, Japan, showing it is possible to observe changes in the resilience of the urban fabric.</p>

The Application of Ecological Resilience to Urban Landscapes

<p>The understanding of resilience is a key concept for improving the adaptive capacity of cities to deal with and take benefits from unpredictable changes while keeping on evolving. However, in urbanism and architecture, a theoretical framework to use resilience in urban, landscape and architectural design is still needed. This thesis proposes an instrumental theory that can work as a link between the ecological theory of resilience and its utilisation in urban and architectural design. Through the implementation of this new knowledge, it should be possible to provide insight into the structures, dynamics and self-organizing processes that sustain the resilience capacity of cities. The research has developed a methodology for analysing the ecological resilience of urban landscapes using an urban morphological approach. The method has been tested on case studies in Auckland, New Zealand, and Tokyo, Japan, showing it is possible to observe changes in the resilience of the urban fabric.</p>

Growth performance of eucalypts and acacia seedling under elevated CO2 load in the changing environment

Acacia and Eucalypt are important species in the global forest plantations. The resilience of those species under the changing environment would define their significance in the dynamic of forest plantation. This study was aimed to provide information on the growth performance of two acacias and two eucalypts seedlings under elevated CO2 concentrations. The seedlings of A. auriculiformis, A. mangium, E. camadulensis, and E. urophylla were subjected to two levels of CO2 and two levels of nutrient supply in the FACE system in Sapporo Experimental Forest, Japan. The eucalypts showed significantly higher growth performance than the acacias. The nutrient addition significantly increased the growth, yet the CO2 and interaction between CO2 and nutrients were not significantly different. LMA was not significantly affected by the elevated CO2 and nutrient addition. Although nutrients significantly affected the C/N in the eucalypts, they showed no different effect on the acacias. As expected, Nmass and Narea were higher in the acacia than those in the eucalypts, although no significant responses were shown to elevated CO2 and nutrient addition. The tested acacia and eucalypts showed relatively insensitivity to elevated CO2. Thus they might possess resilience capacity under the keep increasing level of the atmospheric CO2 concentration.

Resilience to Early Family Risk Moderates Daily Stress and Affect on Cortisol Diurnal Slope associations: A 14-Day Ecological Momentary Assessment Study

ObjectiveThis study examined whether resilience capacity moderates the impact of daily perceived stress and affect on cortisol diurnal slope among relocated emerging adults. MethodsRelocated undergraduates (N=98; aged 18-25 years) were recruited from three groups: Resilient, Vulnerable, and Control. Mixed-effects models were used to test the unique effects of perceived stress, negative affect, and positive affect x group interactions on diurnal cortisol slope across 14 consecutive days.ResultsThe Resilient group did not moderate the associations between daily stress or affect on cortisol diurnal slope. Instead, both the Resilient and Vulnerable groups with early family risk, showed a steeper diurnal slope unique to higher stress and a flatter slope unique to higher NA.ConclusionsResults suggest that an adverse early family life was significantly associated with altered cortisol diurnal slope outcomes to stress (i.e., demand) and negative affect (i.e., distress). These associations were not attenuated by current resilience capacity.

Research on resilience capacity assessment of urban water supply system in China under flood and drought disaster

Under the influence of global climate change, urban flood and drought disasters occur frequently, so that is extremely important to construct the resilience capacity of urban water supply system. Based on the framework of system toughness and capability analysis, using correlation analysis and factor analysis to construct the index system of resilience capacity assessment of urban water supply system, which reflects the four dimensions of water source, water plants, water supply and distribution network and users, and five dimensions of social, natural environment, economy, physics and organization, and the weights of all indexes are given. The multi-level comprehensive evaluation model based on cloud model and the index comprehensive evaluation index method based on entropy weight were used to evaluate the resilience of the water supply system in Qingdao under flood and drought disasters, and the evaluation results of the two methods were compared. Finally, based on the evaluation results, the influencing factors of water supply system resilience were analyzed, and the corresponding strategies to improve the resilience of water supply system were proposed, in order to provide decision support for the planning and construction of urban water supply system resilience in the near and long term.