Sökning: "Resilience"
Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 461 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Resilience.
11. Exploring the resilience in coral reefs
Sammanfattning : Considering the unprecedented global decline of coral reefs concerns about their future existence are well-justified. Safeguarding ecological resilience (i.e. the capacity of ecosystems to absorb disturbance without changing their identity) has become a prime goal for management in order to combat further degradation of coral reefs. LÄS MER
12. Urban Disaster Governance : Resilience and Rights in the Unequal City
Sammanfattning : While a hazard, such as an earthquake, may result from natural processes, the unequal ways in which it impacts people’s lives are not an outcome dictated by forces of nature. Indeed, the disaster unfolding from a hazard has much to do with how human societies are governed. LÄS MER
13. Resilience in transport services -focus on constraints
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14. Exploring Software Resilience
Sammanfattning : Software has, for better or worse, become a core component in the structured management and manipulation of vast quantitates of information, and is therefore central to many crucial services and infrastructures. However, hidden among the various benefits that the inclusion of software may bring is the potential of unwanted and unforeseen interactions, ranging from mere annoyances all the way up to full-blown catastrophes. LÄS MER
15. Deltaic Dilemmas : Ecologies of Infrastructure in New Orleans
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the relationship between water infrastructure, ecological change, and the politics of planning in New Orleans and the Mississippi River Delta, USA. Complex assemblages of water control infrastructure have been embedded in the delta over the last several centuries in an effort to keep its cities protected from floodwaters and maintain its waterways as standardized conduits for maritime transportation. LÄS MER