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Responding to urban crisis
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The role of local capacity building is central to the achievement of urban management objectives, particularly in the fields of regeneration and renewal as mentioned in this paper, particularly in situations where local communities are attempting to respond to an urban crisis, where established relational webs and networks and the mobilisation capacity of the local policy community is critical.About:
This article is published in Cities.The article was published on 2000-08-01. It has received 54 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Emergency management & Crisis management.read more
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Measuring and maximizing resilience of freight transportation networks
TL;DR: The problem of measuring a network's maximum resilience level and simultaneously determining the optimal set of preparedness and recovery actions necessary to achieve this level under budget and level-of-service constraints is formulated as a two-stage stochastic program.
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Resilience: An Indicator of Recovery Capability in Intermodal Freight Transport
Lichun Chen,Elise Miller-Hooks +1 more
TL;DR: A stochastic mixed-integer program is proposed for quantifying network resilience and identifying an optimal postevent course of action to take and a technique that accounts for dependencies in random link attributes based on concepts of Benders decomposition, column generation, and Monte Carlo simulation is proposed.
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GeoWeb and crisis management: issues and perspectives of volunteered geographic information
TL;DR: This paper aims at putting into perspective the development of GeoWeb, both in terms of technologies and applications, against crisis management processes.
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Disaster and emergency management systems in urban areas
TL;DR: The article presents a conceptual understanding of the governance concept, a brief summary of related research in the context of emergency management, and an example of the Orlando Metropolitan Area in the State of Florida for practical purposes.
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An approach for modeling human cognitive behavior in evacuation models
TL;DR: The method is called “start of evacuation motion” analysis and is based on logic diagrams called continuous and single value networks, which have shown to be a very powerful tool to analyze the cognitive aspects of human beings during a fire emergency situation.
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
TL;DR: Putnam et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, revealing patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
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Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity
TL;DR: Fukuyama as discussed by the authors argued that the end of the Cold War would also mean the beginning of a struggle for position in the rapidly emerging order of 21st-century capitalism and argued that in an era when social capital may be as important as physical capital, only those societies with a high degree of social trust will be able to create the flexible, large scale business organizations that are needed to compete in the new global economy.
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Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies
TL;DR: In this article, an institutional approach to Spatial Change and Environmental Planning is presented, with a focus on the development of an infrastructure for collaborative planning systems and practices in URBAN regions.