scholarly journals Adaptive Resilience of Hospitality Enterprises: Key Practices Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Abuelkassem Mohammad ◽  
Moamen AbouElezz
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Resilience

scholarly journals Retail Policies and Urban Change in Naples City Center: Challenges to Resilience and Sustainability from a Mediterranean City

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7620
Author(s):  
Rosario Sommella ◽  
Libera D’Alessandro
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
City Center ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Sustainability Research ◽  
Combining Data ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Adaptive Resilience ◽  
Policy And Planning ◽  
The Impact

Political discourses, public discussions, and studies in different fields have increasingly focused on the vulnerabilities affecting cities and on the possible responses to them, which are often traced back to urban resilience and sustainability. Research and debates in the field of retailing and consumption geographies are no exception. To carry out a critical analysis on the retail policies associated with the urban commercial change of the Naples city center, the case study is placed in the context of the literature review focusing on three concepts: spatial vulnerability, adaptive resilience, and territorialized sustainability. The analysis is conducted combining data, policy, and planning documents with long-term field research. The changing relationship between consumption practices, retail dynamics, and policies highlights a sort of hybridization of commercial and consumption central cityscapes, which is produced by the coexistence between retail-led phenomena of regeneration and forms of local resistance. The results of the research highlight, from a Mediterranean perspective, new general insights on the impact of selective forms of vulnerability and on the adaptive resilience strategies adopted, but most of all on the indispensable rethinking of the urban retail governance for the enhancement of urban livability, social cohesion, and locally sustainable lifestyles, activities, and places.

scholarly journals The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Laxness: Holding fast against vanity and illusion

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 428-430
Author(s):  
David S. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Use Disorders ◽  
Nobel Laureate ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms ◽  
Celebrity Suicide ◽  
Medically Unexplained ◽  
Adaptive Resilience ◽  
Unexplained Physical Symptoms

SummaryIn his early novels, the Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness portrayed troubled individuals beset by familial, societal and economic challenges within an unpredictable and often unforgiving landscape; his later work addressed humanistic concerns regarding a well-lived life and the harmony of individual and environment. His 1957 novel The Fish Can Sing lies at the cusp of these preoccupations. Laxness contrasts the economic privations experienced by hard-pressed Icelanders with the ostentatious displays of their Danish colonial overloads; he also portrays individuals afflicted by psychosis, alcohol use disorders and medically unexplained physical symptoms, and delineates the path towards a ‘celebrity’ suicide. The novel warns against self-deceptive vanity and community-endorsed illusions, and celebrates the persistent benefits of nurturing relationships, all within a lyric contemplation of individual adaptive resilience and quotidian domestic pleasures.

Entrepreneurial resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic: navigating survival, continuity and growth

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Boyke Rudy Purnomo ◽  
Rocky Adiguna ◽  
Widodo Widodo ◽  
Hempri Suyatna ◽  
Bangun Prajanto Nusantoro
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Inquiry Approach ◽  
Adaptive Resilience

Purpose This study aims to explore how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Indonesia display resilience in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research design was used, which involved semi-structured interviews on five creative industry-based businesses in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. A narrative inquiry approach was used to obtain an in-depth understanding of SMEs’ resilience. The data obtained were analyzed using thematic analysis via MaxQDA 2020. Findings The Covid-19 pandemic triggered the emergence of both new opportunities and new constraints for SMEs. These, in turn, significantly interrupt their business model. SMEs are found to navigate survival, continuity and growth by drawing from their resourcefulness and firm-level strategies to cope with the new opportunities and constraints. Research limitations/implications This study was conducted qualitatively based on five SMEs in the creative industry in Indonesia. This limits the ability to compare the findings across different economic sectors. Practical implications SMEs facing emergent constraints may need to find new ways to recombine existing resources and simultaneously seek to innovate their business model. Business owners and entrepreneurs should adopt a positive mindset such as optimism, perseverance and efficacy, to cope with adversity. Growth-oriented SMEs may make use of a competitive mindset such as flexibility, speed and innovation, to spot and exploit opportunities that emerge from the crisis. Social implications SMEs’ resilience should be understood not only in terms of economic survival and continuity but, more deeply, about their social contribution to the localities where they operate. Originality/value This study illustrates the process of how adaptive resilience is adapted and executed by SMEs. It also contributes to entrepreneurial resilience and resourcefulness literature by explaining how entrepreneurs anticipate, respond to and leverage from the crisis.

Toward a methodology for the system integration of adaptive resilience in armor

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Cannon ◽  
Eugene Paulo
Keyword(s):  
System Integration ◽  
Adaptive Resilience

scholarly journals Regions and Economic Resilience: New Perspectives

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matías Mayor ◽  
Raul Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Environmental Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
External Shocks ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Policy Perspective ◽  
Biological Capacity ◽  
Adverse Environmental Conditions ◽  
Adaptive Resilience

The term “resilience” originated in environmental studies and describes the biological capacity to adapt and thrive under adverse environmental conditions. Regional economic resilience is defined as the capacity of a territory’s economy to resist and/or recover quickly from external shocks, even improving its situation from the pre-shock status. This editorial introduction provides a summary of the eleven contributions included in the special issue on regions and economic resilience. These eleven articles focus on different channels related to processes of mitigation (resistance-recovery) and adaptive resilience (reorientation-renewal) in a wide variety of geographical settings and scales. They include methodological advances and also relevant results from a policy perspective. The editorial concludes by providing some directions for future research.

scholarly journals Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (18) ◽  
pp. 4582-4590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Schoennagel ◽  
Jennifer K. Balch ◽  
Hannah Brenkert-Smith ◽  
Philip E. Dennison ◽  
Brian J. Harvey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fire Suppression ◽  
Fire Regimes ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Wildland Urban Interface ◽  
Fuels Reduction ◽  
New Era ◽  
Fuels Management ◽  
Residential Communities ◽  
Adaptive Resilience ◽  
Key Aspects

Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a consequence, the wildland–urban interface is projected to experience substantially higher risk of climate-driven fires in the coming decades. Although many plants, animals, and ecosystem services benefit from fire, it is unknown how ecosystems will respond to increased burning and warming. Policy and management have focused primarily on specified resilience approaches aimed at resistance to wildfire and restoration of areas burned by wildfire through fire suppression and fuels management. These strategies are inadequate to address a new era of western wildfires. In contrast, policies that promote adaptive resilience to wildfire, by which people and ecosystems adjust and reorganize in response to changing fire regimes to reduce future vulnerability, are needed. Key aspects of an adaptive resilience approach are (i) recognizing that fuels reduction cannot alter regional wildfire trends; (ii) targeting fuels reduction to increase adaptation by some ecosystems and residential communities to more frequent fire; (iii) actively managing more wild and prescribed fires with a range of severities; and (iv) incentivizing and planning residential development to withstand inevitable wildfire. These strategies represent a shift in policy and management from restoring ecosystems based on historical baselines to adapting to changing fire regimes and from unsustainable defense of the wildland–urban interface to developing fire-adapted communities. We propose an approach that accepts wildfire as an inevitable catalyst of change and that promotes adaptive responses by ecosystems and residential communities to more warming and wildfire.

scholarly journals Differential Response of the Microbiome of Pocillopora acuta to Reciprocal Transplantation Within Singapore

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey K. Deignan ◽  
Diane McDougald
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
16S Rrna ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Anthropogenic Impacts ◽  
Amplicon Sequencing ◽  
Post Transplantation ◽  
Reciprocal Transplantation ◽  
Adaptive Resilience ◽  
Stressful Environments ◽  
Conservation And Management

AbstractAs corals continue to decline globally, particularly due to climate change, it is vital to understand the extent to which their microbiome may confer an adaptive resilience against environmental stress. Corals that survive on the urban reefs of Singapore are ideal candidates to study the association of scleractinians with their microbiome, which in turn can inform reef conservation and management. In this study, we monitored differences in the microbiome of Pocillopora acuta colonies reciprocally transplanted between two reefs, Raffles and Kusu, within the Port of Singapore, where corals face intense anthropogenic impacts. Pocillopora acuta had previously been shown to host distinct microbial communities between these two reefs. Amplicon sequencing (16S rRNA) was used to assess the coral microbiomes at 1, 2, 4, and 10 days post-transplantation. Coral microbiomes responded rapidly to transplantation, becoming similar to those of the local corals at the destination reef within one day at Raffles and within two days at Kusu. Elevated nitrate concentrations were detected at Raffles for the duration of the study, potentially influencing the microbiome’s response to transplantation. The persistence of corals within the port of Singapore highlights the ability of corals to adapt to stressful environments. Further, coral resilience appears to coincide with a dynamic microbiome which can undergo shifts in composition without succumbing to dysbiosis.

Does Sustainability Investment Provide Adaptive Resilience to Ethical Investors? Evidence from Spain

2013 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Ortas ◽  
José M. Moneva ◽  
Roger Burritt ◽  
Joanne Tingey-Holyoak
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Resilience
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