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Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective (Integrated Disaster Risk Management)
Adam Rose
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hardcover. Series: Integrated Disaster Risk Management. Num Pages: 91 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 10 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFFC; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an operational metric, and it shows how they can be applied to measuring and applying the concept to private and public decision making. Major dimensions of resilience and their implications for human development are explored. Resilience is emphasized as a coping mechanism for dealing with short-term crises, such as natural disasters and acts of terrorism. As well, the author shows how lessons learned in the short-run out of necessity and through ... Read more
This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an operational metric, and it shows how they can be applied to measuring and applying the concept to private and public decision making. Major dimensions of resilience and their implications for human development are explored. Resilience is emphasized as a coping mechanism for dealing with short-term crises, such as natural disasters and acts of terrorism. As well, the author shows how lessons learned in the short-run out of necessity and through ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Number of pages
91
Condition
New
Series
Integrated Disaster Risk Management
Number of Pages
91
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811015328
SKU
V9789811015328
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About Adam Rose
Adam Rose, Research Professor, Price School of Public Policy, and Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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