Resilience and Vulnerability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resilience and Vulnerability write by Suniya S. Luthar. This book was released on 2003-05-05. Resilience and Vulnerability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Table of contents
Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards
Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards write by Sven Fuchs. This book was released on 2018-03-22. Vulnerability and Resilience to Natural Hazards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive overview of the concepts of vulnerability and resilience for natural hazards research for both physical and social scientists.
The Resilient Enterprise
The Resilient Enterprise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Resilient Enterprise write by Yossi Sheffi. This book was released on 2007-02-23. The Resilient Enterprise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stories from Nokia, Dell, UPS, Toyota, and other companies show how firms can reduce their vulnerability to high-impact distributions, from earthquakes to strikes, from SARS to terrorism, and use them for competitive advantage. What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole supplier for the brake pressure valve used in every Toyota? When a hurricane shuts down production at a Unilever plant? When Dell and Apple chip manufacturers in Taiwan take weeks to recover from an earthquake? When the U.S. Pacific ports are shut down during the Christmas rush? When terrorists strike? In The Resilient Enterprise, Yossi Sheffi shows that companies' fortunes in the face of such business shocks depend more on choices made before the disruption than they do on actions taken in the midst of it—and that resilience benefits firms every day, disaster or no disaster. He shows how companies can build in flexibility throughout their supply chains, based on proven design principles and the right culture—balancing security, redundancy, and short-term profits. And he shows how investments in resilience and flexibility not only reduce risk but create a competitive advantage in the increasingly volatile marketplace.Sheffi describes the way companies can increase security—reducing the likelihood of a disruption—with layered defenses, the tracking and analysis of “near-misses,” fast detection, and close collaboration with government agencies, trading partners, and even competitors. But the focus of the book is on resilience—the ability to bounce back from disruptions and disasters—by building in redundancy and flexibility. For example, standardization, modular design, and collaborative relationships with suppliers (and other stakeholders) can help create a robust supply chain. And a corporate culture of flexibility—with distributed decision making and communications at all levels—can create a resilient enterprise.Sheffi provides tools for companies to reduce the vulnerability of the supply chain they live in. And along the way he tells the stories of dozens of enterprises, large and small, including Toyota, Nokia, General Motors, Zara, Land Rover, Chiquita, Aisin Seiki, Southwest Airlines, UPS, Johnson and Johnson, Intel, Amazon.com, the U.S. Navy, and others, from across the globe. Their successes, failures, preparations, and methods provide a rich set of lessons in preparing for and managing disruptions. Additional material available at www.TheResilientEnterprise.com.
Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements
Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements write by Dr Daniel R Curtis. This book was released on 2014-09-28. Coping with Crisis: The Resilience and Vulnerability of Pre-Industrial Settlements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why in the pre-industrial period were some settlements resilient and stable over the long term while other settlements were vulnerable to crisis? Indeed, what made certain human habitations more prone to decline or even total collapse, than others? All pre-industrial societies had to face certain challenges: exogenous environmental hazards such as earthquakes or plagues, economic or political hazards from ‘outside’ such as warfare or expropriation of property, or hazards of their own-making such as soil erosion or subsistence crises. How then can we explain why some societies were able to overcome or negate these problems, while other societies proved susceptible to failure, as settlements contracted, stagnated, were abandoned, or even disappeared entirely? This book has been stimulated by the questions and hypotheses put forward by a recent ‘disaster studies’ literature - in particular, by placing the intrinsic arrangement of societies at the forefront of the explanatory framework. Essentially it is suggested that the resilience or vulnerability of habitation has less to do with exogenous crises themselves, but on endogenous societal responses which dictate: (a) the extent of destruction caused by crises and the capacity for society to protect itself; and (b) the capacity to create a sufficient recovery. By empirically testing the explanatory framework on a number of societies between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century in England, the Low Countries, and Italy, it is ultimately argued in this book that rather than the protective functions of the state or the market, or the implementation of technological innovation or capital investment, the most resilient human habitations in the pre-industrial period were those than displayed an equitable distribution of property and a well-balanced distribution of power between social interest groups. Equitable distributions of power and property were the underlying conditions in pre-industrial societies that allowed 'favourable' institutions to emerge with high rates of participation down the social hierarchy, giving people the freedom and room to choose their own fate - not necessarily reliant on one coping strategy but with the capacity to combine many different ones in search of optimum resilience.
Stress and Your Health
Stress and Your Health - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Stress and Your Health write by Hymie Anisman. This book was released on 2015-02-12. Stress and Your Health available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Stress and Your Health: From Vulnerability to Resilience presents an evidence-based evaluation of the various effects of stress, along with methods to alleviate distress and stress-related illnesses. Examines myriad stressor effects and proven ways to alleviate stress in our lives Covers a wide range of stressor-related topics including therapeutic strategies to deal with stress and factors that hinder treatment of stress Makes difficult biochemical and immunological concepts accessible to a non-specialist audience Addresses many of the factors that cause individuals to be more vulnerable to the impact of stressors and at increased risk for pathology
