Ecosystem resilience is defined as the capacity of an ecosystem to return to its original state after being disturbed, with a focus on restoring forest ecosystems in the context of natural disasters and climate change. AI generated definition based on:Trees, Forests and People,2023 ...
Resilience&AdversityResilienceis defined as someone’s individual ability to successfully adapt to life tasks in the face of a social disadvantage or highly adverse conditions.Adversityis a difficult or unpleasant situation as in family or relationship problems‚ health complications or workplace and fi...
In recent years researchers have begun to conceptualise resilience from a social ecological perspective whereby resilience is “defined as a set of behaviours over time that reflect the interactions between individuals and their environments, in particular the opportunities for personal growth that are ...
This bias is thought to serve crucial evolutionarily adaptive functions to avoid harm2. However, in situations like coping with stress, a bias toward negative emotional processing is undesirable or even harmful as excessive emotional arousal may usurp attentional resources, thus hampering ongoing ...
importance of strengthening resilience during the COVID-19 (Sugawara et al.,2022). During the prevalence of COVID-19, it is beneficial to use more adaptive coping strategies, which will produce positive adaptive responses and reduce the generation of negative stress reactions such as depression (...
Psychological resilience has been broadly defined as “the capacity to maintain, or regain, psychological well-being in the face of challenge”8. Resilience is a complex construct that can be conceptualized as anattribute(a trait) that is possessed to varying degrees by different individuals, a dy...
There is a tension between the original descriptive concept of resilience first defined in ecological science and a more recent, vague, and malleable notion of resilience used as an approach or boundary object by different scientific disciplines. Even though increased conceptual vagueness can be ...
as AI, automation, and big data can help in preventing, diagnosing, and treating diseases. These initiatives can provide a positive return on investment: for each dollar invested in improving health, an economic return of two to four times is possible (Exhibit 4).14,” Mc...
‘propensity or predisposition of human societies to be negatively impacted by climate hazards’32. This vulnerability index is a compound measure of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Exposure is defined as ‘the physical factors external to the system that contribute to vulnerability’. ...
Most responding CROs (67 percent) cited pandemic effects as having had significant impact on employees and in the area of nonfinancial risk. Few, however, expected those effects to retain their force in three years’ time.Climate change, on the other hand, is expected to g...