Essays about: "resilient thinking"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 27 essays containing the words resilient thinking.

  1. 21. Assessing the adaptive capacity of Sweden's environmental governance

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap

    Author : Cusicanqui Tomas; [2016]
    Keywords : Adaptive capacity; social-ecological framework; resiliency; adaptive co-management; systems thinking; vertical farming; urban agriculture; symbiotic relationships;

    Abstract : Different challenges arising from increasingly uncertain and unpredictable environmental and economicconditions have been shifting the focus of public governance and socio-economic development. Morerecently, empirical studies have demonstrated a transitional epoch in which humanity is currently in: TheAnthropocene, as well as its harmful effects that degrade the biosphere, and thus our economic, political,social well-being. READ MORE

  3. 22. Resilience Thinking For Common Pool Resources Management - Avoiding Drought Induced Disaster Threats in Indian Rajasthan.

    University essay from KTH/Mark- och vattenteknik

    Author : Nicolas Sultanem; [2016]
    Keywords : Resilience Thinking; Common Pool Resources; Rajasthan Drought; Drought Alleviation; Sustainable Governance; Water Resources Management; Traditional Water Structures;

    Abstract : Drought related problems are a major stress source on the livelihood of communities in several areas of the world. Due to inefficient water resources management people leave their traditional habitat in search for security in larger agglomerations. READ MORE

  4. 23. Exploring Resilience of Water Management in Slovakia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : Katarina Civanova; [2015]
    Keywords : water management; Slovakia; flood control and prevention; resilient thinking; adaptive co- management; sustainability; political ecology; human ecology; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Water resource management in Slovakia is characterized by a ‘command-and-control’ paradigm. The main feature of this approach is in a view that is based on the predictability of the future water situation. People rarely think about water as an issue in Slovakia - the rivers flow, it rains, the taps run. READ MORE

  5. 24. Living on the water : a social innovation approach to flood adaptation planning in the river basin Eferding, Austria

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Tobias Gebetsberger; [2015]
    Keywords : participatory action research; proactive flood-adaptation; social innovation; social media research; resilience; sustainability science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In the summer of 2013, devastating floods caused heavy damage along various streams in central Europe. In the river basin Eferding in Austria, the Danube River reached record water levels and flooded hundreds of homes in the low-lying areas over night. READ MORE

  6. 25. Resilient design for the extended Välen-Frölunda Valley

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Anna Valman; [2013]
    Keywords : resilience thinking; systems thinking; resilient cities; landscape architecture; metaphor; site interpretation; site alteration; dynamics; working knowledge; trans-areal studies;

    Abstract : The global concern for sustainability and for issues connected to climate change engages a vast group of professions and fields of science. As cities worldwide are growing due to a great relocation of people, ecology research has partly shifted its focus towards urban conditions and development. READ MORE