Defining and Measuring Economic Resilience from a Societal, Environmental and Security Perspective

• Main Author: Rose, Adam (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Integrated Disaster Risk Management,
• Subjects: Industrial management > Environmental aspects.; Risk management.; Natural disasters.; Environmental economics.; Economics.; Environmental Economics.; Risk Management.; Natural Hazards.; Sustainability Management.

This volume presents an economic framework for the analysis of resilience in relation to societal, environmental, and personal security perspectives. It offers a rigorous definition of economic resilience and an operational metric, and it shows how they can be applied to measuring and applying the c...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Human development and resilience
• Economic framework
• Defining resilience across disciplines
• Economic resilience
• Broader dimensions of economic resilience
• Related concepts
• Measuring economic resilience
• Empirical analysis
• Risk management
• Co-benefits
• Conclusion. .