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To increase climate resilience means one has to reduce the climate vulnerability of people, communities and countries. This can be done in many different ways. They can be technological and infrastructural changes (including buildings and roads) or policy (e.g. laws and regulation).
Without such security, people may experience its opposite: economic insecurity and resulting economic anxiety. Financial security more often refers to individual and family money management and savings. [1] [2] Economic security tends to include the broader effect of a society's production levels and monetary support for non-working citizens.
There are other frameworks to address the challenges the current economic system. Ecological economics is also an interdisciplinary field used to address environmental and economic problems. It focuses on setting systematic limits to the current economic system, unlike regenerative economics' focus on reproduction of life in nature. [7]
People will travel abroad more, probably. Imports are cheaper, so they will import more. But obviously if that happens, then the rest of the world is happily financing the country’s current ...
The Employee Motivation & Commitment Index, a monthly report by the ADP Research Institute, looks at engagement, resilience and connection among workers, and they are really bad this summer ...
Social capital is a concept used in sociology and economics to define networks of relationships which are productive towards advancing the goals of individuals and groups. [1] [2] It involves the effective functioning of social groups through interpersonal relationships, a shared sense of identity, a shared understanding, shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity.
The purpose of these two 1980s-era programs was "so that there was no way you could 'double dip' into both a federal pension and Social Security," explains Jill Schlesinger, CBS News business analyst.
For a long time, the interpretation of resilience in the sense of engineering resilience prevailed in supply chain management. [1] It is implied here that supply chain is a closed system that can be controlled, similar to a system designed and planned by engineers (e.g. subway network). [5]