Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures: Volume 30
Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up
Published on 13. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-0-444-63982-0 (ISBN)
Description
Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures: Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up, Volume One provides an important contribution to environmental management by introducing an integrative framework for participatory research for better land use and natural resource planning, organized around compelling recent case studies. It is a valuable guide for the increasing number of students looking for solutions in sustainability science and also practitioners who are on the ground working with local communities to improve specific places.
The book was developed in response to the need to provide a clear and synthetic account, in accessible and non-technical language, of the way in which innovative integrative research can help solve real world human-environment interaction problems at a range of levels and scales, e.g., participatory modelling to secure a sustainable future for a natural protected area, working with stakeholders to break the deadlock on renewable energy implementation in Europe or tackling social exclusion and reducing food carbon footprint through local agroecology schemes.
The book was developed in response to the need to provide a clear and synthetic account, in accessible and non-technical language, of the way in which innovative integrative research can help solve real world human-environment interaction problems at a range of levels and scales, e.g., participatory modelling to secure a sustainable future for a natural protected area, working with stakeholders to break the deadlock on renewable energy implementation in Europe or tackling social exclusion and reducing food carbon footprint through local agroecology schemes.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
The book is targeted equally to three specific groups
1) The increasingly large body of students and researchers working in sustainability science, resilience and participatory processes applied to environmental problems.
2) Members of civil society organisations (community groups, cooperatives, associations, NGOs) or SMEs looking for a technical guide to assist development of their own participatory processes.
3) Public administrators dealing with human-environment interaction issues at all levels of governance, e.g. environment ministers, land planners, natural area managers.
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 192 mm
Width: 235 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
340 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-444-63982-0 (9780444639820)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures
Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up
E-Book
11/2017
Elsevier
€124.00
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Persons
Richard J. Hewitt. PhD (2014), University of Alcala, Spain, Geographical Information Technologies, integration of participatory processes in land use models). Master (2006), University of Newcastle, United Kingdom (Geographical Information Systems), BSc Archaeology (1997), University College London. Member of the technical team of the Observatory for a Culture of Territory (OCT), Madrid, Spain, Researcher in spatial land planning in James Hutton Institute, Scotland, UK. Principal current research themes include geographical modelling, participatory land planning, and renewable energy. Veronica Hernandez-Jimenez. PhD in Participatory Planning (2007), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom. Agricultural Engineer (2001), Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. Founding member of the Observatory for a Culture of Territory (OCT), Madrid, Spain. Researcher and practitioner in rural planning and landscape, food systems and agroecology, transition initiatives and resilient communities applying participatory action research from local to global scales. Ana Zazo Moratalla. PhD in Peripheries, Sustainability and Urban Vitality (2015), Master Urban Studies (2010), Architect (2006) Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. Academic at the University of Bio Bio (Concepcion, Chile). Collaborator member of the Observatory for a Culture of Territory (OCT), Madrid, Spain. Principal current research themes include urban food systems, participatory land planning, and rural-urban linkages Blanca Ocon. Master in Planning and Rural Development (2005), Polytechnic University of Madrid. Agricultural Engineer: Rural engineering (2001), Polytechnic University of Madrid. Founding member of the Observatory for a Culture of Territory (OCT), Cantabria, Spain. Lecturer at a Technological Institute of agriculture and livestock, Cantabria, Spain. Lara Roman. PhD in Agroecology, Social Sciences and Rural Development (2016), University of Andalusia and Institute of Sociology and Peasant Studies, Spain. Agronomist (2001) Polytechnic University of Madrid. Researcher and trainer of rural development and agroecology, specialised in participatory action research. Founding Member of the Observatory for a Culture of the Territory (OCT), Madrid, Spain. Maria Encinas. PhD in Landscape analysis (2000), Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. Biology Bachelor (1994), Complutense University of Madrid. Researcher in landscape planning and biodiversity, Lecturer at European University of Madrid (1999-2008). Project Coordinator at Global Biodiversity Information Facility Spain (2008-2011). Manager at En las Nubex, environmental awareness on nature (2011-2017). Collaborator of the Observatory for a Culture of Territory (OCT), Extremadura, Spain
Volume editor
Observatorio para una Cultura del Territorio, Spain and James Hutton Institute, UK
Observatorio para una Cultura del Territorio, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Observatorio para una Cultura del Territorio, Spain and University of Bio Bio, Chile.
Observatorio para una Cultura del Territorio, Spain
Observatorio para una Cultura del Territorio, Spain
Observatorio para una Cultura del Territorio, Spain
Content
1. Introduction - Integrative approaches for better land and resources planning
2. Strategies and techniques - a living, changing process
3. Experiences
4. Reflections and future pathways
2. Strategies and techniques - a living, changing process
3. Experiences
4. Reflections and future pathways