Infrastructure development is one of the areas most in need of climate-resilient and friendly investments. The COVID-19 pandemic will increase government spending in this direction. This paper demonstrates how the principles of reflexive governance a...
Resilience is critical for construction projects to cope with diverse risks and uncertainties. Inter-organizational relationship governance has been widely recognized as an important means of strengthening project resilience. However, existing resear...
The six Gulf monarchies—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (UAE)—are more politically stable than their peers in the Middle East and North Africa. Explanations for governance resilience range from repress...
Relational governance, as a flexible and informal mechanism, plays a critical role in addressing the challenges of construction projects in the VUCA environment. However, existing research has rarely examined relational governance mechanisms from a r...
Resilience has become more popular among researchers and practitioners of public governance. Previous studies indicate the importance of social capital and leadership in this research field, but mainly theoretically and rarely are considered together...
Considering the inherent characteristics of long-term agreements, public–private partnership (PPP) projects are confronted with diverse uncertainties and external challenges. However, existing research has devoted limited attention to the resil...
22 February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has immensely affected economic and social order in not only China but the entire world, seriously threatening peoples’ lives and property. In China’s fight against COVID-19, the community is at the front line of joint preventio...
Employing resilience as the theoretical and methodological framework and focusing on governance, this long-term anthropological study analyzes the socio-ecological system of a small indigenous community, with community-based tourism development. Afte...
Good urban governance is a multidimensional concept that focuses on the improvement of the quality of living conditions of local citizens, especially those of marginalised and disadvantaged communities. Cities face various adversities and challenges,...
In the context of multiple overlapping uncertainties, upstream disruptions in electric vehicle supply chain networks are becoming increasingly frequent. Given the dynamic and sudden nature of disruption risks, this paper introduces a stochastic stopp...
One of the key underlying principles of sustainable food and agriculture systems is to enhance the resilience of people, communities, and ecosystems. This paper discusses broadly the intersection of community resiliency and sustainability of our food...
This paper presents the development and pilot validation of an enhanced water governance assessment tool developed within the European InnWater project. Grounded in OECD Principles on Water Governance, the study combines literature review, thematic f...
This article presents a social-ecological resilience assessment and attempts to explicitly examine the impacts of urbanization on resilience, with a view to explore how to strengthen social-ecological governance of the resilience of urban ecosystems....
This paper explores the concept of evolutionary urban resilience by framing cities as complex, open, and adaptive Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETS), shaped by multi-scalar dynamics, systemic uncertainty, and interdependent crises. It cha...
With the ongoing changes in global economic and social environments, project organization resilience has emerged as a core competency in addressing environmental uncertainty, thereby becoming a prominent research area within construction management....
The Qinba Mountain Region in southern Shaanxi, China, is both a key ecological barrier and a repository of cultural heritage, yet its traditional villages remain highly vulnerable to natural disasters. Disaster-relocation policies have reduced direct...
This study examines whether firm-level digital transformation capability (DTC) is associated with stronger operational resilience and whether governance structures condition this relationship. Operational resilience is treated here as a business-sust...
Flooding is the most common of all natural disasters and accounts for large numbers of casualties and a high amount of economic damage worldwide. To be ‘flood resilient’, countries should have sufficient capacity to resist, the capacity t...
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used to support infrastructure resilience in smart cities. However, its contribution to sustainable urban development depends on technological capabilities, institutional governance, and stakeholder readiness....
The tendency of infrastructure projects to be complex, large-scale, and long-term prompts temporary project organizations’ need to have resilience to deal with various risks, uncertainties, and crises. The resource and cognitive capacity of sta...
The increasing frequency of extreme climate events has posed severe challenges to China’s socio-economic development and ecological environment due to geological disasters. Therefore, there is an urgent need for effective adaptive strategies to...
In Europe, the energy transition by means of a governance shift through liberalization is followed by a transition and shift towards community energy initiatives, with a particular view of supporting the demand for greater energy sustainability. What...
Different Digital Governance maturity models are established; however, limited research has examined their applicability at the local government level, particularly concerning the interrelations among dimensions such as Strategy, Employees, and Proce...
14 September 2017
This study aimed to further our understanding of a characteristic of Community Resilience known as Disaster Governance. Three attributes of Disaster Governance—redundancy, diversity, and overlap—were studied in four coastal towns in southern Chile th...
Energy Transition Regions (ETRs) face the dual challenge of phasing out carbon-intensive activities while ensuring economic viability, social stability, and climate resilience. This study operationalises the Resilience–Investment–Land Nex...
The concept of resilience has gained significant prominence across various disciplines, particularly in the context of regional development. Specifically, the Social Responsibility of Local Public Administrations (SRLPA) may play a significant role i...
The goal of public security and safety under the concept of sustainable development has been transformed into the maximization of the comprehensive goal of economic, environmental, and social security and safety. The polycentric collaborative governa...
30 May 2022
Why are some social entrepreneurial teams able to adapt to challenges and leverage the opportunities that are generated from a crisis, and why can some start-ups achieve sustained growth yet others do not? From the perspective of relational governanc...
Entrepreneurial teams are seen as pilots with which to steer growth in new ventures. However, there is currently a lack of studies exploring how they work under conditions of uncertainty. Based on the upper echelons theory and institutional theory, t...
There is lively scholarly and societal debate on the need to diversify flood risk management strategies to contribute to more flood resilience. The latter requires dedicated governance strategies related to which relevant insights are currently emerg...
Contemporary emergency systems operate at the intersection of climate volatility, digital interdependence, and cascading institutional disruptions. Despite growing research on resilience, adaptive governance, and digital transformation, these fields...
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic exposed structural weaknesses in European public health systems while simultaneously accelerating institutional and digital reforms at the European Union (EU) level. This study examines how the EU has evolved from...
Financial accounting manipulation (FAM) remains a persistent concern in emerging Asian markets, yet existing studies typically assess firm resilience, market valuation, and institutional governance separately. This study addresses this gap by examini...
Southeast Asia has the most significant tropical peat/peat carbon storage area in the world, with Indonesia being the primary location for much of it. Anthropogenic changes to peatlands have resulted in a threat to these endangered ecosystems; polici...
Urban disaster resilience has become central to risk governance as climate change, compound hazards, and interdependent urban systems intensify pressures on cities. Publication-based reviews describe visible research outputs but reveal less about how...
This article investigates the institutional and informational foundations of water governance in Southern Europe amid escalating climate stress. Focusing on Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece, it develops a multi-level analytical framework to explore...
Positioned in the context of the COVID-19 crisis and subsequent recovery, the research investigates how digital infrastructures and skills contribute to strengthening governance quality and urban economic resilience across Central and Eastern Europea...
Resilience thinking has strongly influenced how people understand and pursue sustainability of linked social-ecological systems. Resilience thinking highlights the need to build capacity and manage general system properties in a complex, constantly c...
Intense urbanization creates large cities that are functionally and administratively dependent on the surrounding regions and cities. As the boundaries of cities expand, so do the chronic stresses and sudden shocks they face. To reduce the impact of...
Compound threats—two or more relatively rare and high-consequence events that co-occur in time and space, amplifying their effects—present difficult-to-predict events that can impose potentially grave consequences. While there has been in...
The fruit agro-export value chain in northern Chile faces governance and water-related challenges that affect its resilience and long-term sustainability. In the context of sustainable agriculture, these challenges highlight the need for integrated a...
Port resilience performance (PRP) is a critical factor in advancing the sustainable development of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road (MSR). The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework, widely recognized as a cornerstone of global sust...
Rapid climate change and accelerated urbanization expose the limitations of land use planning approaches grounded in static spatial allocation and assumptions of predictable futures. Contemporary urban systems are increasingly characterized by contin...
This study diagnoses institutional resilience in aging critical infrastructure under climate stress by developing the VILDE framework and deriving an AHP-based governance priority structure. Although climate-induced infrastructure failures are often...
This study examines how corporate resilience is developed through inclusive and sustainable cocoa partnerships within integrated value chain governance in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Using an interpretive qualitative multiple-case study design, the research...
In the domain of supply chain resilience (SCR), research has disproportionately emphasized the environmental dimensions of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, leading to an oversight regarding the roles played by social and governanc...
Savings and credit cooperatives support financial inclusion, community-based economic participation, and the social economy in emerging countries, yet their protection mechanisms are often discussed through models designed for commercial banks. This...
The existing research on digital–intelligent innovation collaboration networks has not effectively connected the evolution of real collaborative relationships with governance methods, and governance models often struggle to accommodate both emp...
Urban shrinkage has evolved from a localized phenomenon into a systemic challenge within China’s rapid urbanization, rendering traditional growth-oriented planning paradigms increasingly obsolete. However, existing research often treats shrinka...
Peri-urban interfaces tend to ensure water supply relying on their surrounding’ resources, generating water disputes when asking for collaboration. The urban-rural matrix of the Marina Baja county in southern Spain is characterized by inland ir...
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