Resilience Perspective Research Articles

Women’s social resilience in the context of male out-migration in Dehradun district, India

It is widely acknowledged that migration impacts men and women differently. Most prior research has looked at these effects on the migrants themselves, while those who remain in their places of origin have received less scholarly attention. This article investigates how male labor migration from the Dehradun district of India affects the wives who stay behind. It adopts a social resilience perspective by focusing on the opportunities and vulnerabilities that women face once their husbands migrate. Our findings identify four factors that shape these women’s resilience as well as four domains of resilience. While women with strong support networks and higher social statuses tend to experience a greater sense of resilience when their husbands migrate, their personal circumstances nevertheless interact in nuanced and sometimes surprising ways. We argue that stay-behind wives are neither particularly vulnerable nor emancipated but can occupy myriad positions along this spectrum.

Organizational resilience: leadership, operational and individual responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

PurposeSince the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, most organizations have experienced a sudden and unprecedented drop in revenue and productivity. However, the pandemic did not exclusively negatively impact organizations; rather, it resulted in both negative and positive effects. To delve into the multi-level process through which organizational outcomes change from negative to positive indicators, this study focuses on organizational resilience as a theoretical concept to overcome pandemic-related turmoil.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a multi-level analysis based on grounded theory with a sample of 30 healthcare employees who worked in hospitals and were simultaneously enrolled in a part-time master of business administration (MBA) program at a university in the Midwest. Of the 30 participants, 21 were from a single university hospital (UH), and the remaining 9 participants were from other hospitals (non-UH).FindingsThe authors analyzed the data and incorporated three existing perspectives of organizational resilience (attribute, process and multi-level views) into an integrated model. The authors identified 25 first-order concepts and 8 second-order themes and categorized them into 4 aggregate dimensions at different unit levels: organizational field, leadership, operation and individual units.Practical implicationsA resilient hospital operates as a cohesive system, with entities at various levels – from individuals and teams to the broader organization – collaborating seamlessly to foster resilience. Top management team (TMT) should persistently communicate with employees to provide information about the current crisis and clear strategic directions to reduce employees' fear and prevent anomie stemming from future uncertainty. Managers should not only be concerned about employees' physical safety from infection and psychological safety from isolation but also encourage employees to elicit meaningfulness from their work. Furthermore, TMT and human resource (HR) teams should adapt human resource management (HRM) practices to allow for flexibility and optimism in employee roles.Originality/valueIn this study, the authors utilized a qualitative methodology with grounded theory in order to develop a comprehensive model that holds theoretical, methodological and practical significance. Theoretically, the authors' novelty lies in the synthesis of three distinct perspectives: attribute, process and multi-level. The authors merged these approaches into a unified model, identifying precursors of resilience at different levels. Methodologically, the authors focused on hospitals as target samples, which were the foremost and representative organizations severely confronting the crisis and turmoil brought by the pandemic. The authors documented organizations' experiences amidst the crisis as they unfolded in real time rather than in hindsight. This approach highlights the immediacy and significance of the authors' research in the realm of crisis management. Practically, the authors' findings illuminate that organizational resilience can be developed through a collaborative effort. It emerges from coordinated interactions across various organizational actors, from employees and middle managers to the TMT.

Long-term microgrid expansion planning with resilience and environmental benefits using deep reinforcement learning

Microgrid plays an increasingly important role to enhance power resilience and environmental protection regarding greenhouse gas emission reduction through the widespread applications of distributed and renewable energy. Because of the steady growth of load demand, the strict power resilience requirements and the pressing need of carbon emission reduction, microgrid expansion planning considering those factors has become a currently topical topic. In this study, a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, in which a microgrid serves as a backup power system in the event of main grid outages from the perspectives of economy, resilience and greenhouse gas emission, is proposed. Deep reinforcement learning method is used to solve this dynamic and stochastic optimization problem by taking into account various uncertainties and constraints for the long-range planning. Case studies of 20-year microgrid expansion planning using actual data are conducted. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and total cost including economic losses resulting from power grid outages, investment and operating cost of microgrid entities. In addition, the impact of customer load demand and microgrid entities price on optimal planning policies is discussed. The results demonstrate that microgrid expansion planning can be effectively adapted to different levels of load demand and different scenarios of price changes under the proposed framework. This work is helpful for decision makers to implement cost-effective and power resilient microgrid expansion planning with greenhouse gas emission reduction benefits in the long term.

Resilient Design of Urban Parks in the Context of Public Safety Incidents

The resilient design of urban parks in the context of public safety incidents is an important topic concerning both urban and public safety. This research, from a resilience perspective, explores the design of urban parks under the backdrop of public safety incidents. It analyzes the problems faced by urban parks in terms of social, natural, and engineering aspects, and proposes four phasesprevention, early warning, emergency response, and post-disaster recoveryemphasizing the elements of each phase. Moreover, a resilient design strategy is put forth: socialadaptive and versatile, embracing community sharing; ecologicalbalancing soft and hard elements, overcoming challenges with resilience; engineeringbuilding a foundation for disaster prevention, intelligent early warning. This strategy aims to enhance the resilience of parks, making them a crucial support for urban stability and public safety, while also providing valuable references for future urban planning and design.

Construction of Outdoor Adventure Education Courses to Develop Psychological Resilience for University Students

Background and aims: Most schools only pay attention to the cultivation of students' bodies, knowledge, and skills, but neglect the development and training of university students' psychological skills. When university students exhibit some psychological problems, often will be given to students' mental health education centers to solve, due to the student's mental health education center teachers and the site being more limited. This study aims to evaluate the impact of outdoor adventure education courses on the psychological resilience of university students. Materials and methods: The researchers used an experience-based learning circle model, incorporating The Resiliency Wheel, Full value contracts, and guidance techniques. Using quantitative studies, interviews, and experimental data, participants were divided into two groups: the experimental group and the control group. The effect of the adventure education course as an 8-week intervention was studied using the psychological resilience Scale. Data were analyzed using a t-test and one-way ANOVA. The experimental group scored higher than the control group in the total scores of psychological resilience and the three components (tenacity, strength, optimism), and these results were statistically significant. Further, the experimental group shows marginal positive changes in the total resilience scale and its three dimensions in terms of effect size. The designed adventure education courses significantly improve the psychological resilience of university students. Results: The results found that the psychological resilience level of university students was significantly improved after the intervention, and the scores in the dimensions of tenacity, strength, and optimism significantly increased after the intervention. through the research of this paper, we can expand the analytical perspective of psychological resilience and provide a new way of thinking for the improvement of the psychological resilience of university students. Conclusion: The content of previous interventions on psychological resilience and the factors affecting psychological resilience, applying the concept of the psychological resilience wheel to this course, And the full value contract, guide technology, and outdoor adventure education courses are fully combined and designed.

Enhancing blue: The resilience of blue economy and the efficiency of China's sea-land industrial synergy

In the “new normal” with increasingly obvious uncertain characteristics, China urgently needs to enhance the resilience of blue economy and improve the efficiency of sea-land industrial synergy. In this study, we constructed China's blue product ecosystem and added land products with high technological similarity in it. Then, from the dimensions of economy and network structure, a framework for evaluating the resilience of blue products is designed and the efficiency of China's sea-land industrial synergy is investigated from the perspective of resilience. Finally, based on the “tree” structure characteristic of China's blue product ecosystem found in this research, we designed a cyclically framework consisting of “roots (land technology-related products)-trunk (high resilience hub blue products)-branches (non-hub blue products)” for enhancing blue. The main results are as follows. (1) Land technology-related products are the supporting industry of China's blue economy. (2) Deliberately attacking blue products with strong structural functional resilience will lead to a more rapid “chains broken”. (3) The efficiency of sea-land industrial synergy decreased significantly after removing land technology-related products. Our research offers empirical support to assist policy-makers in screening key blue products and industrial chains that warrant cultivation and support to enhance the sustainable development of the blue economy.

Architectural typology of rural housing: a perspective of residential construction affordability and earthquake resilience in Kagera region, Tanzania

Architectural typology of rural housing: a perspective of residential construction affordability and earthquake resilience in Kagera region, Tanzania

Regional resilience and social-ecological systems: the impact of COVID-19 on community conservation in Namibia

ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic severely affected wildlife areas in Namibia, where the collapse of tourism threatened community-based natural resource management programs. This study conceptualizes community conservancies as social-ecological systems and links this framework to an evolutionary regional resilience perspective. Qualitative interviews reveal the vulnerability of conservancies in the Zambezi region due to their heavy reliance on tourism revenues. While adaptation processes and donor support have mitigated negative impacts, the prioritisation of conservation over rural development risks undermining the long-term adaptive capacity of the region. Continued donor support, policy improvements and diversification efforts are essential to strengthen the resilience of community-based conservation.

Towards a resilience assessment framework for the airport passenger terminal operations

Airport terminals can generate and intensify the undesired phenomena that take place on transportation networks in the wake of disruptive events. The more resilient a terminal is, the more easily it will bounce back to the desired state, causing less nuisance to the users. In this study, we expand the state-of-the-art airport terminal resilience assessment through fast-time simulation and tailored resilience metrics. From the point of view of simulation, we establish delay management strategies based on flight schedule alterations as a response to a disruptive event. In the baseline scenario, no disruption is set, whereas passenger arrival to the airport is blocked for 1 or 2 h in the disrupted scenarios. A previously verified and validated simulation model of a Brazilian domestic airport was used to represent the passenger departing flow, encompassing check-in and security screening. From the resilience perspective, a systematic assessment procedure for new resilience metrics is unveiled, providing means for exploring the metrics’ formulations and their relationship to the operational strategies. Following the simulation runs, resilience metrics for individual passenger and aircraft delays were investigated, something yet scarcely explored in the literature. The results show that the proposed metrics deliver significantly different outcomes from those associated with the current literature. Consequently, we can conclude that a resilience assessment concerning the airport terminal that disregards individual delays may be missing important information. The systematic approach we propose is a contribution in that sense, even though this topic requires more research, considering the vast nature of the possible disruptive events and their subsequent operational impacts.

‘Made in Airbnb’: Sense of Localness in Neolocalism: Tourism Dynamics on Heimaey, Iceland

Neolocal expressions where inhabitants promote distinguishing community characteristics through tourism have become increasingly popular in remote cold-water islands. Although scholars primarily discuss neolocalism in the context of microbreweries, evidence has emerged of tourism-neolocalism dynamics. Airbnb rentals, for instance, can be considered as neolocal playgrounds where inhabitants and tourists immerse themselves in and promote a destination’s localness. Through a qualitative case study, this paper examines how these traits play out on Heimaey, Iceland. It investigates whether distinct Airbnb hostings, ranging from locals cohabiting with visitors to more professionalised services exhibit divergent neolocal forms. Findings demonstrate that Airbnb delivers a form of neolocalism stemming from inhabitants’ living spaces whereby hosts construct localness either in the name of conservation or innovation. In this process, the boundaries between the local(isms), the global, and cosmopolitanism are blurred, thus complicating people’s sense of localness. Here, neolocalism becomes more than a mere commercial tool that automatically leads to sustainable outcomes. This study enriches our understanding of new intersections of modern tourism trends and their impact on a community’s sense of localness. Further research is needed to unravel the implications of these dynamics for community wellbeing from a community sustainability and resilience perspective.

A resilience perspective on healthcare personnels’ experiences of managing the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study in Norwegian nursing homes and home care services

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic led to new and unfamiliar changes in healthcare services globally. Most COVID-19 patients were cared for in primary healthcare services, demanding major adjustments and adaptations in care delivery. Research addressing how rural primary healthcare services coped during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the possible learning potential originating from the pandemic is limited. The aim of this study was to assess how primary healthcare personnel (PHCP) working in rural areas experienced the work situation during the COVID-19 outbreak, and how adaptations to changes induced by the pandemic were handled in nursing homes and home care services.MethodThis study was conducted as an explorative qualitative study. Four municipalities with affiliated nursing homes and homecare services were included in the study. We conducted focus group interviews with primary healthcare personnel working in rural nursing homes and homecare services in western Norway. The included PHCP were 16 nurses, 7 assistant nurses and 2 assistants. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analyzed using thematic analysis.ResultsThe analysis resulted in three main themes and 16 subthemes describing PHCP experience of the work situation during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how they adapted to the changes and challenges induced by the pandemic. The main themes were: “PHCP demonstrated high adaptive capacity while being put to the test”, “Adapting to organizational measures, with varying degree of success” and “Safeguarding the patient’s safety and quality of care, but at certain costs”.ConclusionThis study demonstrated PHCPs major adaptive capacity in response to the challenges and changes induced by the covid-19 pandemic, while working under varying organizational conditions. Many adaptations where long-term solutions improving healthcare delivery, others where short-term solutions forced by inadequate management, governance, or a lack of leadership. Overall, the findings demonstrated the need for all parts of the system to engage in building resilient healthcare services. More research investigating this learning potential, particularly in primary healthcare services, is needed.

Ecological space resilience assessment of Baiyangdian Basin from the perspective of evolutionary resilience

The structure and function of ecological spaces play a crucial role in resisting risk interference and providing ecological services. Conducting resilience assessments of ecological spaces is of great significance for maintaining ecological security. Taking the Baiyangdian Basin as the research object, based on the evaluation results of ecosystem service function importance and ecological environmental sensitivity, the ecological space importance level of the Baiyangdian Basin is divided. Based on the three basic characteristics of “resistance, adaptability, recoverability”, the resilience of ecological space model was constructed by selecting ecosystem service value, landscape structure stability, ecological resilience model and coefficient. The research results show that: (1) The overall importance index of ecological space in the Baiyangdian Basin is relatively low. The non-critical area accounted for 43.00% of the total area, the general area accounted for 30.78%, and the core area accounted for 26.22%, which mainly distributed in the northern part of the study area and at the confluence of rivers. (2) The proportion of areas with extremely important ecosystem service functions in Baiyangdian Basin is 31.73%, concentrated in the central and southwestern parts of the basin. The highly sensitive ecological environment areas accounted for 21.96%, mainly distributed in high-altitude areas in the northern part of the basin and river convergence areas. (3) On the whole, the overall resilience level of the study area is not high and there is a significant difference in resilience between the north and south, with 68.60% of the regions in the low level of resilience. The area with high resilience level accounted for only 1.51%, and the highest resilience level was found at river confluence. The research results provide a theoretical basis for maintaining and improving the ecological environment of the basin, and provide a basis for implementing precise policies to optimize the ecological space of the basin.

DIGITAL PAYMENT MAXIMIZATION STRATEGY AS REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESILIENCE IN SURABAYA CITY MASS BUSS TRANSPORTATION

The implementation of digital payment policies can be consistently applied and improve the security of digital transactions so as to avoid cyber-crime in the context of digital payments. The urgency of this study is that researchers observe that digital payment transactions on mass bus transportation in Surabaya City eliminate currency exchange. The problem-solving approach of this research uses a regional economic resilience perspective as the main paradigm in observing the phenomenon of digital payments in mass bus transportation in the city of Surabaya. The formulation of this research problem includes: 1) What is the dynamics of mass bus transportation payment transactions in the city of Surabaya? 2) What is the regional economic review on the digital payment for mass bus transportation in Surabaya? 3) What is the strategy to maximize digital payments on mass bus transportation in Surabaya? The stage of research methods to answer problems and achieve research objectives is the use of qualitative methods that are strengthened through the use of primary data and secondary data. The results of the study suggest that initiating payments should be less painful and more enjoyable than cash payments that put a higher mental price on goods. Empirical facts based on interviews show that payment using plastic waste makes it difficult for consumers who will use mass transportation. The economic acceleration has an impact on data collection that is facilitated through applications, the aspect of supervision increases in this context. The implementation of digital payment policies can be consistently applied and improve the security of digital transactions so as to avoid cyber-crime in the context of digital payments.

Research on the Supervision and Implementation System of Territorial Space Planning from the Perspective of Resilience

Enhancing the resilience of territorial space is a necessary means to cope with future risks and development uncertainties. Resilience is the goal and connotation of implementing monitoring of territorial space planning, and planning supervision is the guarantee for the formation of resilient territorial space. Although domestic and foreign planning implementation monitoring has reflected resilience thinking in the background and objectives, it has achieved good results in ecological and social resilience of territorial space, there are still shortcomings in institutional systems and methodological techniques. At present, China’s territorial space planning is still in the exploratory stage, and the supervision and implementation system has not been perfected, which has not played the expected role in enhancing the resilience of territorial space. Therefore, with a focus on the development of China’s economy and society, it is necessary to build an efficient monitoring system for the implementation of territorial space based on China’s national conditions, and improve it in terms of ideology,, theoretical, policy, regulatory, methods and techniques, in order to promote the modernization of China’s territorial space governance and the construction of an ecological civilization system, and also provide reference for the spatial planning of other countries.

Resilience building in agricultural extension programmes: application of a resilience framework and development of a farmer-focused assessment tool

ABSTRACT Purpose Participatory extension programmes (PEPs) are a well-known approach to achieve change on an on-farm level. This study examines whether there is a change in on-farm resilience due to PEP participation, by identifying whether participation leads to an increase in resilience capacities, and which aspects of the programme contribute to this. Design/Methodology/Approach A case study was selected in Aotearoa New Zealand, where 33 interviewees had participated in a 3-year PEP. Findings Findings show that participation in the PEP led to an increase in the resilience capacities robustness and adaptability. Attributes via which the PEP contributed to this are: (i) increasing openness by connecting to others in the community and learning collectively, (ii) increasing diversity by using new tools and diversifying land use, and (iii) improving system reserves by building labour and feed resources. Practical implications A resilience framework is applied to evaluation that helps decision-makers identify the multifaceted effects of PEP participation. Insights from the study also contribute to future design of agricultural PEPs, by enabling resilience-building attributes through a novel ‘resilience wheel’ assessment tool. Theoretical implications Novel theoretical insights from this study include that PEPs can be evaluated by using a resilience framework and show which resilience attributes are specifically important to establish change via PEP participation. Originality/value This research is the first to evaluate the effect of PEP participation from a resilience perspective.

Eliciting community‐preferred policy alternatives for achieving workable coexistence in a human‐dominated landscape: Insights from Chitwan National Park, Nepal

AbstractHuman‐wildlife conflict is a global issue that poses a major threat to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. Wildlife adapted to human‐modified landscapes in developing countries can threaten the safety and livelihood of local communities. In such landscapes, where people and wildlife compete for resources, community involvement is promoted to achieve workable coexistence. We used a choice experiment methodology approach to identify community‐preferred policy alternatives in Chitwan National Park in south‐central Nepal. The results indicated that conflicts between the local community and wildlife are on the rise, crop damage being the highest form of damage and most perceived compensation and fencing as conflict‐mitigation tools. The choice experiment showed that residents have a positive preference for enhancing livelihood diversification skills, cultivating buffer crops, promoting alternative livelihoods, and strengthening rapid response teams. We identified concerned mitigators who are younger age group, encountered and concurred that HWC is increasing, and agreed that fencing and compensation are conflict‐mitigation tools. We designed scenario planning using community‐preferred policy alternatives to assist the park management. This is the first‐choice experiment study to design an evaluation framework under community resilience perspectives to achieve workable coexistence. Our study has potential implications for promoting coexistence in a human‐dominated landscape.

Classical Batik Craft Industry in Imogiri Yogyakarta: Existence and Development in the Perspective of Cultural Resilience

Classical Batik Craft Industry in Imogiri Yogyakarta: Existence and Development in the Perspective of Cultural Resilience

Study on the Redevelopment of the Hangang River Waterfront from an Urban Resilience Perspective

Cities worldwide are developing strategies to cope with heat waves, extreme colds, floods, wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts, pandemics, and other disasters caused by climate change. To this end, a resilience theory is being expanded and applied as a methodology to secure social and spatial systems that respond to climate change while providing ecological habitats and spaces for more diverse human activities. This study evaluated resilient redevelopment strategies for the Hangang River in Seoul by drawing on practices grounded in resilience theory. This study analyzed the nine proposals from the Resilience by Design Challenge, which aimed to gather response strategies for climate change in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2017 to identify practical physical design and social system strategies. Each team’s strategy for implementing urban resilience focused on six categories: governance systems, financial planning, public engagement, accessibility, ecology, and diversity. The guidelines to consider during the redevelopment of the Hangang River in Seoul were formulated by applying these criteria to the review of the river. This process has also yielded the following implications and characteristics for resilient design. First, ensuring the resilience of a city necessitates prioritizing the resolution of regional imbalances. Second, the social and ecological resilience of cities is intricately intertwined. Moreover, comprehending the dynamics between the two can guide effective, resilient design. Third, resilient design’s spatial and temporal scales are extensive and varied, highlighting the importance of understanding the relationships among categories and subcategories at different hierarchies. Finally, the value of urban waterfront space, traditionally associated with positive cultural and economic contributions to cities, must be reevaluated more profoundly and meaningfully in light of climate change.

Resilience of Wengding, the Phoenix Wa traditional village

The village of Wengding, ancestral home of the Wa ethnic group, considered as China’s last primitive tribe, suffered near-complete extinction due to a fire incident in 2021. Historical records indicate that stilt-style buildings, also in Wengding, are highly susceptible to fire. Nevertheless, this has not hindered the long-term existence of these distinctive architectural forms. This study analyses the reasons for the sustained existence of the traditional building forms in Wengding, from the perspective of resilience. The findings indicate that the requirements of the traditional nomadic civilization for rapid construction of dwellings, the communal consciousness toward disaster resistance, and the implementation of spatially oriented fire protection measures collectively account for the swift recovery and reconstruction observed in Wengding village after the disaster. These aspects are tangible manifestations of the capacity of the village for resilience. Overall, resilience is essential for the sustainability of such traditional villages in the long term.

Do early life traumas moderate the impact of cumulative pandemic stress on anger?

Do early life traumas condition the psychological consequences of pandemic stressors? Using national data from the Crime, Health, and Politics Survey (May-June 2021), we examine whether early life traumas buffer or amplify the impact of cumulative pandemic stressors (CPS) on anger, an understudied measure of emotional distress. We examine two competing perspectives. The trauma amplification perspective posits that people who experience early life traumas are especially vulnerable to subsequent stressors, while the trauma resiliency perspective suggests the opposite, that people who experience traumas in early life are less vulnerable to subsequent stressors. The trauma resiliency perspective was partially supported by our analyses. Although early life traumas abated the impact of three or more pandemic stressors on anger, we failed to observe any attenuation at lower levels of pandemic stress exposure. We extend previous research by recasting the common stress proliferation model as a stress modification model and by focusing on feelings of anger. Findings are discussed in the context of social stress, mental health, and the COVID-19 pandemic.