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Following on from the success of the first edition, Smartcities + Eco-Warriors (2010), this book is the latest innovative response on urban resilience from one of the world's leading urban design and architectural thinkers. An ecological symbiosis between nature, society and the…
Stress resilience: molecular and behavioral aspects
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This unique transdisciplinary publication is the result of collaboration between UNESCO's Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, the United Nations University's Traditional Knowledge Initiative, the IPCC, and other organisations. Chapters, written by indigenou…
Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. Our urban infrastr…
Resilience has been suggestive of successful aging. However, the resilience literature lacks a well-developed theoretical model of resilience in later life for diverse groups. The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the resilience and its predictive factors in parti…
As students attend their chosen college or university day to day stressors and challenges can become overwhelming. The stressors that come with new collegiate expectations and demands can increase the importance for colleges and universities to foster students’ development. Prog…
This project examines the role of plant diversity in the resilience and vulnerability of socioecological systems using an archaeological case study of the ancient Maya of the Mopan River valley, Belize. Archaeologists have documented major sociopolitical transformations in this …
Previous research indicates that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have a significant impact on individuals’ psychological and physical well-being through adulthood. The literature of resilience focuses on protective factors (e.g., positive parenting) that potentially mitigat…
This study focuses on the events during and after 9/11 in Newfoundland, Canada and the Broadway show, Come From Away. Generally, the purpose is to examine the long-term narrative construction of resilience after a defining event in a community’s history and explores the idea tha…
Limited research has been completed in the area of resilience and its relationships with religious coping, anxiety, and depression in the university setting. Existent studies have found positive relationships between resilience and religious coping as well as a between religious…
In Mễ Trì village on the Western peri-urban edge of Hanoi, Vietnam, landless rice farmers no longer tend to rice paddy fields. Instead, many have converted 40 square meters of their residential space into a small factory for producing an artisanal rice product called cốm (young …
Around 900 years ago, the famous Mimbres Classic Black-on-white pottery ceased to be made and the people who produced this pottery depopulated their large villages, seemingly disappearing from the archaeological record. What happened to these people and where these people went a…
The critical elements of summer camp experiences and training allow participating African American youth to overcome adversity, avoid violence with hope, and a zeal for life. Identified program interventions during adolescent years may mitigate adverse and violent outcomes by th…
Research indicates that 80% of the population will experience a traumatic event in their lifetime, and yet less than 20% will develop a trauma-related diagnosis subsequent to the event (Breslau et al., 2014; Kilpatrick et al., 2013). In the resiliency literature, post-trauma res…
Servant leadership has become the preferred leadership style in religious settings due to its effectiveness and alignment with Christian values. However, the contemporary Catholic Church faces unique challenges that may require a more nuanced, holistic approach to leadership. Th…
Drought stress has had devastating effects for vegetable growers world-wide, leading to much recent research focusing on the development of drought-resilient crops. The importance of the rhizosphere microbiome in plant performance under drought stress is under development, inclu…