While serving as the U.S. Army Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), our team helped finalize the infrastructure work post-Katrina and the recovery ...
Imagine two ship crews marooned on opposite coasts of the same wild and inhospitable island. One group drops seafaring formalities and coalesces around collective survival. They tend to each other, ...
Are Grant and Biden two historical figures who have demonstrated the skills and the attitudes of resilience? They both share a lot in common. They both followed a president who had been impeached and ...
Even though numerous examples of the resilience of human communities to climate change at different geographical scales and historical contexts are already known, the authors of the article emphasize ...
The word resilience can be perplexing. Does it mean remaining calm when faced with stress? Bouncing back quickly? Growing from adversity? Is resilience an attitude, a character trait or a skill set?
Resilience has long been known to involve both innate personality characteristics and learned competencies. In the present study, we measured nine trainable competencies that empirical studies suggest ...
Vegetated ecosystems worldwide are threatened by both intensifying land use and the growing impacts of anthropogenic climate change such as the increasing frequency and severity of droughts and heat ...
Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it.
“Sustainability” and “resilience” have become buzzwords in recent years, but many people don’t know what either term really means. As an economist who studies environmental issues, I believe an ...
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