Scholarly networks on resilience, vulnerability and adaptation within the human dimensions of global environmental change

Janssen, Marco A.; Schoon, Michael; Wu, Ke; Börner, Katy

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.04.001

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“…Following Tranfield, Denyer, and Smart (2003) framework for systematic reviews designed specifically for the management field, we made a holistic evaluation on the topic mentioned above. As a pilot search, we used "seed" papers (Janssen, Schoon, Ke, & Börner, 2006) to allocate the other actors of interaction with Board of Directors in the present literature, except the CEO. We identified the seed papers group by choosing from literature that we were personally familiar with.…”

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Decision-Making Process in Japanese Board Room. Audit & Supervisory Board as a Source of Information to Outside Board Members: A Systematic Review

Ilieva¹,

Yamada²

2018

JMAA

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In the context of the Corporate Governance Code enactment in Japan, we examine how newly introduced outside directors in Japanese boards obtain information to take part in the decision-making process. We conducted a systematic review of the literature and found 18 peer-reviewed publications in a time span between 2000 and 2016 that described the asymmetry of information between the insider group of board directors (including the CEO) and the outside board members. Our findings show that for the course of more than a decade, despite all changes and reforms, the role of board directors, whether insiders or outsiders, is still supplementary. They are treated more as advisors than active part in the decision-making process. We reveal different insider sources of information as forming social ties with the CEO and/or inside board directors and collaboration with Audit & Supervisory Board (Kansayaku), which can help reduce this asymmetry and improve the decision-making process. We assume that it will be easier for the outsiders to establish contacts and form social ties with the Audit & Supervisory Board members because of their unspoken lower status and thus to obtain more information about the company internal affairs and discussions that take place during the informal meetings, where only insiders (including the CEO) are present.

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Decision-Making Process in Japanese Board Room. Audit & Supervisory Board as a Source of Information to Outside Board Members: A Systematic Review

Ilieva¹,

Yamada²

2018

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“…This work was specifically operational, seeking action, but resulted in cutting-edge and pioneering scientific publications. Yet more modern literature bypasses that work, introducing myths such as Janssen et al (2006) implying that Liverman (1990) -a piece not covering islands -was the first publication to link 'the term vulnerability to global environmental change' (Janssen et al, 2006: 248).…”

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Island contributions to disaster research

Kelman¹,

Lewis²,

Mercer³

2015

Global Environment

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Island case studies have contributed significantly to disaster research theory and application, including more recent work on climate change adaptation. Island-related work in development and disasters has been particularly adept at building on the past in order to create a better development future through disaster risk reduction, one subset of which is climate change adaptation. However, recent emphasis on climate change has to a large degree bypassed previous and deeper understandings of island contributions to disaster research as well as the importance of island situations. This paper details key elements from the literature on island-based development and disaster research – especially regarding the themes of vulnerability and resilience theory as then applied in practice for island migration – linking this material with a critiquing analysis of ongoing work emerging from climate change. Despite the importance of dealing with climate change, especially for islands and islanders, it must always be placed within wider disaster and development tasks. This includes embracing previous work in order to learn from, without becoming mired in, the past.

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“…2 As such, the concept of vulnerability is deeply intertwined with related concepts including, but not limited to, hazards, risk, adaptation, 3 adaptive capacity, 4 coping capacity, and resilience (Janssen et al 2006;Gallopín 2006;Eakin and Luers 2006;Malone 2009;Turner 2010;Romero-Lankao and Qin 2011;Cardona et al 2012;Romero-Lankao et al 2013). It is beyond the scope of this paper to comprehensively review and parse the research and literature related to these concepts.…”

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Challenges to adaptation: a fundamental concept for the shared socio-economic pathways and beyond

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The framework for the new scenarios being developed for climate research calls for the development of a set of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), which are meant to differ in terms of their challenges to mitigation and challenges to adaptation. In order for the scenario process to fulfill its goals, the research and policy communities need to develop a shared understanding of these concepts. This paper focuses on challenges to adaptation. We begin by situating this new concept in the context of the rich literatures related to inter alia adaptation, vulnerability, and resilience. We argue that a proper characterization of challenges to adaptation requires a rich, exploration of the concept, which goes beyond mere description. This has a number of implications for the operationalization of the concept in the basic and extended versions of the SSPs. First, the elements comprising challenges to adaptation must include a wide range of socioeconomic and even some (non-climatic) biophysical factors. Second, careful consideration must be given to differences in these factors across scales, as well as cross-scale interactions. Third, any representation of the concept will require both quantitative and qualitative elements. The scenario framework offers the opportunity for the SSPs and full scenarios to be of greater value than has been the case in past exercises to both Integrated Assessment Modeling (IAM) and Impacts, Climatic Change (2014) 122:495-507

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Scholarly networks on resilience, vulnerability and adaptation within the human dimensions of global environmental change

Cited by 435 publications

References 60 publications

Decision-Making Process in Japanese Board Room. Audit & Supervisory Board as a Source of Information to Outside Board Members: A Systematic Review

Decision-Making Process in Japanese Board Room. Audit & Supervisory Board as a Source of Information to Outside Board Members: A Systematic Review

Island contributions to disaster research

Challenges to adaptation: a fundamental concept for the shared socio-economic pathways and beyond

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