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In the face of profound shock and change, individuals, organizations, and communities are seeking new ways to prepare for an uncertain future, their only certainty being that the present trajectory of change will intensify. Pandemics, wildfires, heat waves, hurricanes, flooding, social unrest, economic strife, and a rapidly changing climate system comprise a resounding wake up call: we must reinvent our institutions to think about and act with a resilient mindset. The purpose of the playbook is to support these efforts and build stronger, adaptive, and resilient communities.
ContributorsHinrichs, Margaret (Editor, Contributor) / Solís, Patricia (Editor, Contributor) / Arizona State University. Knowledge Exchange for Resilience (Contributor) / Global Council for Science and the Environment (Contributor) / Applegate, Joffa Michele (Contributor) / BurnSilver, Shauna (Contributor) / Goldman, Erica (Contributor) / Johnston, Erik W., 1977- (Contributor) / Miller, Thaddeus R. (Contributor) / Morrison, David (Contributor) / Nation, Marcia (Contributor) / Ngo, Christine Ngoc, 1981- (Contributor) / Shutters, Shade (Contributor) / Wentz, Elizabeth (Contributor) / Wyman, Michelle (Contributor)
Created2021
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Describes the LIHEAP benefits distributed to electric utilities companies in Arizona for fiscal year 2019.
ContributorsPhillips, Lora A. (Author) / Morgan, Shelley (Addressee) / Arizona State University. Knowledge Exchange for Resilience (Sponsor) / Arizona State University. School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (Contributor)
Created2021-03
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This report describes study work and results of KER and AAMHO collaboration over 2022 following up with recommendations and future plans. It includes new data, research publications and media coverage that supported this work in collaboration between the university and community partners for resilience in Arizona.
ContributorsSolís, Patricia (Author) / Varfalameyeva, Kate (Author) / Phillips, Lora A. (Author) / Bowman, Diana (Author) / Hull, Bryan (Author) / Schoneck, Pat (Author) / Arizona Association of Manufactured Home Owners (Sponsor)
Created2022-12-31
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This research aims to collect emergency preparedness data around Arizona to zero in on gaps in heat adoption decision-making and promote structural governance to enforce synchronized deployment of services specifically for residents living in mobile and manufactured housing communities (MMHC). Mobile homes in Maricopa County comprise 5.2% of the total housing stock; 686 mobile home parks throughout the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. A cluster located in the Mesa area totals 92,031 mobile homes in Maricopa County (Heat et al. for Mobile Homes, 2021). This document supplies a package of heat-resilient solutions to MMHC, owners, landlords, and residents for a power outage during and after the event. Findings include recommendations for a collective effort in structuring a Heat Action Plan amongst city departments, utility companies, mobile home residents, AAMHO board members, and any other local ambassadors to prevent deaths in the event of a power outage, specifically during extreme temperature months (May-August). We intend to start mobilizing action to prepare and pivot toward responses to prevent heat-related deaths followed by power outages during the summer. Highlighting the gash in communication between park managers, owners, and landlords with the utility companies is crucial. Consequently, the selected platform for exchanging knowledge with the residents promptly must be addressed beforehand.
ContributorsBritton, Britnie (Author) / Varfalameyeva, Kate (Author) / Noble, Kathleen (Author) / Solís, Patricia (Author)
Created2024-01-01
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This thesis consists of three projects employing complexity economics methods to explore firm dynamics. The first is the Firm Ecosystem Model, which addresses the institutional conditions of capital access and entrenched competitive advantage. Larger firms will be more competitive than smaller firms due to efficiencies of scale, but the persistence of larger firms is also supported institutionally through mechanisms such as tax policy, capital access mechanisms and industry-favorable legislation. At the same time, evidence suggests that small firms innovate more than larger firms, and an aggressive firm-as-value perspective incentivizes early investment in new firms in an attempt to capture that value. The Ecological Firm Model explores the effects of the differences in innovation and investment patterns and persistence rates between large and small firms.
The second project is the Structural Inertia Model, which is intended to build theory around why larger firms may be less successful in capturing new marketshare than smaller firms, as well as to advance fitness landscape methods. The model explores the possibility that firms with larger scopes may be less effective in mitigating the costs of cooperation because conditions may arise that cause intrafirm conflicts. The model is implemented on structured fitness landscapes derived using the maximal order of interaction (NM) formulation and described using local optima networks (LONs), thus integrating these novel techniques.
Finally, firm dynamics can serve as a proxy for the ease at which people can voluntarily enter into the legal cooperative agreements that constitute firms. The third project, the Emergent Firm model, is an exploration of how this dynamic of voluntary association may be affected by differing capital institutions, and explores the macroeconomic implications of the economies that emerge out of the various resulting firm populations.
The second project is the Structural Inertia Model, which is intended to build theory around why larger firms may be less successful in capturing new marketshare than smaller firms, as well as to advance fitness landscape methods. The model explores the possibility that firms with larger scopes may be less effective in mitigating the costs of cooperation because conditions may arise that cause intrafirm conflicts. The model is implemented on structured fitness landscapes derived using the maximal order of interaction (NM) formulation and described using local optima networks (LONs), thus integrating these novel techniques.
Finally, firm dynamics can serve as a proxy for the ease at which people can voluntarily enter into the legal cooperative agreements that constitute firms. The third project, the Emergent Firm model, is an exploration of how this dynamic of voluntary association may be affected by differing capital institutions, and explores the macroeconomic implications of the economies that emerge out of the various resulting firm populations.
ContributorsApplegate, Joffa Michele (Author) / Janssen, Marcus A (Thesis advisor) / Hoetker, Glenn (Committee member) / Johnston, Erik W., 1977- (Committee member) / Shutter, Shade (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2018