Search results for " resilience."

Lo spazio pubblico adattivo: esplorare la transizione digitale per il benessere sociale e ambientale

2022

The present social and environmental challenges, the impact of climate change and the pandemic, revealed the urgency and the opportunity to rethink urban design through its renewed spaces and temporalities. The pandemic offered a ‘natural experiment’ to explore and develop new perspectives, making public spaces more resilient. Contributing towards a rethink of these spaces, the present paper explores adaptive architecture with responsive technologies and their capability of shaping public spaces to constitute a conversation piece with the surrounding environment. This approach combines and reflects different disciplinary fields: architecture, civic interaction and urban design. The explorat…

The role of regional competitiveness in shaping the heterogeneous impact of the Great Recession

2020

This paper assesses the employment resilience of 202 European regions to the Great Recession by investigating the role of regional competitiveness. By using the regional shift component derived from a multiple bases shift–share analysis of employment change as a measure of regional endogenous employment growth, we show that pre‐crisis regional competitiveness determinants are associated with positive performances during the crisis period. However, the variables considered explain well the different vulnerability of the economies, but less convincingly the ability to recover. Taking into account the spatial interactions among regions, results are confirmed and allow us to identify spillover …

La semplificazione normativa nel PNRR: il coinvolgimento dei legislatori regionali tra progetti bandiera e poteri sostitutivi

2021

The essay concerns the involvement of Regional Legislators in the implementation of National Recovery and Resilience Plan («Piano nazionale di ripresa e resilienza»), considering regulatory simplification measures programmed by the Plan. In this perspective, it proposes a comparison between the Plan and the Italian Simplification Agenda 2020-2023 and it examines the framework of regional regulatory simplification measures.

Skolotāju dzīvesspēka veicināšana palikšanai profesijā

2021

Skolotāju atbiruma dēļ, ko izraisa novecošanās, izdegšana un pārmaiņas izglītības sistēmā, ik gadu daļa vakanču skolās paliek neaizpildītas. Maģistra darba "Skolotāju dzīvesspēka veicināšana palikšanai profesijā" mērķis ir izpētīt, kā dzīvesspēks var veicināt skolotāju palikšanu profesijā. Lai sasniegtu darba mērķi, ir veikts fenomenoloģiskais pētījums. Datu ieguvei tiek izmantota anketa skolotājiem (Dzīvesspēka aptauja pieaugušajiem Resilience Scale for Adults), lai noteiktu viņu dzīvesspēku un atlasītu kandidātus intervijai. Naratīvās intervijas ir veiktas ar astoņiem skolotājiem trīs dažādos karjeras posmos – ar stāžu līdz pieciem gadiem, ar stāžu no sešiem līdz piecpadsmit gadiem un ar …

Social Memory and the Resilience of Communities Affected by Land Degradation

2017

L'assistenza delle società a partecipazione pubblica nell'attuazione del PNRR

2022

Si esamina l’assistenza tecnica fornita dalle società a partecipazione pubblica alle amministrazioni nell’attuazione dei progetti inclusi nel piano nazionale di ripresa e resilienza. In particolare, ci si sofferma sulla funzione di ausilio assicurata sia dalle società a prevalente partecipazione pubblica, sia dalle società in house che già svolgono attività di committenza centrale. Ci si domanda se tale forma di assistenza costituisca una attività del tutto inedita per tali società e ci si interroga sulla sua qualificazione giuridica: in particolare, si ritiene opportuno distinguere tale attività da ipotesi affini, come l’esternalizzazione di funzioni o l’azione svolta in passato dagli enti…

Mental Skills of an Athlete as a Resource of Professional Longevity in Sport

2021

The aim of the study was to assess associations between dimensions of mental skills, psychological readiness and predictors of career longevity among current athletes. Mental skills dimensions were measured with the Ottawa Mental Skills Assessment Tool (OMSAT). The psychological predictors of athletic career longevity were measured with the Athletic Coping Skills Scale-28 (the ACSI-28) producing scores for seven coping skills and with the Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2 (CSAI-2) which produced scores for confidence in competition. Overall, 253 current athletes (average age 22 years) of various competitive levels (classified to 5 groups according to the national sport classification sy…

Re-Inhabiting Inner Areas Triggering New Regeneration Trajectories: The Case Study of Sicani in Sicily

2022

The Italian debate on the so-called ‘inner areas’ has received a much-needed boost, following the COVID-19 pandemic, which has further highlighted the differences between metropolitan and inner areas. While the progressive depopulation of inner areas is a worrying phenomenon, the limits of incessant urbanisation and the concentration of settlement and infrastructure policies in large conurbations have become evident. Departing from the framework of the B4R-Branding4Resilience research project of national interest and, by continuing in the furrow initiated by the SNAI, but also surpassing it, the aim of the University of Palermo’s research is to define the requirement for a…

Supporting Cyber Resilience with Semantic Wiki

2016

Cyber resilient organizations, their functions and computing infrastructures, should be tolerant towards rapid and unexpected changes in the environment. Information security is an organization-wide common mission; whose success strongly depends on efficient knowledge sharing. For this purpose, semantic wikis have proved their strength as a flexible collaboration and knowledge sharing platforms. However, there has not been notable academic research on how semantic wikis could be used as information security management platform in organizations for improved cyber resilience. In this paper, we propose to use semantic wiki as an agile information security management platform. More precisely, t…

Citizens' Communication Habits and Use of ICTs During Crises and Emergencies

2014

In this article, citizens’ communication habits and use of information and communication technologies during crises and emergencies are discussed from the perspective of community resilience. The topic is approached qualitatively by exploring citizens’ perceptions, and the data were gathered by means of focus groups in storm-prone and flood-prone areas in Finland. The results indicate that citizens consider emergency communication to be mostly unidirectional: from authorities to the public. However, because crises are often complex and fast developing, cooperation among response organizations and citizen groups is needed to coproduce safety and in adapting to changing situations. Organizati…