Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions
1st Edition
Published on 12. March 2012
240 pages
978-1-136-50452-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of 'resilience' and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term survival. Using global examples, specific emphasis is placed on how learning processes, traditions, policies and politics affect the resilience of communities and what constraints and opportunities exist for communities to raise resilience levels.
Reviews / Votes
'Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions is a welcome addition to studies of the increasingly pervasive concept of resilience.' - Gerald Taylor Aiken, Environmental ValuesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
2 s/w Tabellen, 35 s/w Zeichnungen
2 Tables, black and white; 35 Line drawings, black and white
File size
8,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-50452-5 (9781136504525)
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Person
Geoff Wilson has worked on research topics linked to human-environment interactions for the past 20 years, with extensive research conducted in various geographical settings including New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. He has published several books, including 'Environmental Management: New Directions for the 21st Century' and is currently Editor of the journal 'Geography Compass: Environment and Society'.
Content
1. Introduction 2. Towards a framework for understanding community resilience 3. Transition theory: environmental pathways and resilient communities 4. System memory: community learning, tradition and historical networks 5. Path dependency: 'lock-in' mechanisms and pathways of the '(im)possible' 6. Transitional corridors: external constraints for endogenous community resilience 7. Environmental transitions and the policy challenge: how to make local communities more resilient 8. Conclusions
