Community Resilience Reader - Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

Informationen zum Autor Daniel Lerch is Publications Director of Post Carbon Institute, serving as lead editor and manager of the Institute's books and reports. He is the author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty (2007)--the first major local government guidebook on the end of cheap oil--and was the founding chair of the Sustainable Communities Division of the American Planning Association and a founding co-director of The City Repair Project. Lerch has delivered over 100 presentations to audiences across the United States and abroad, and has been interviewed for numerous media outlets. He has worked with urban sustainability issues for over twenty years in the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Klappentext National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the community level. The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working on the ground to present a new vision for creating resilience. It shows that resilience is a process, not a goal; how it requires learning to adapt but also preparing to transform; and that it starts and ends with the people living in a community. From Post Carbon Institute, the producers of the award-winning The Post Carbon Reader , The Community Resilience Reader is a valuable resource for community leaders, college students, and concerned citizens. Zusammenfassung Essays by resilience leaders give an essential overview to creating resilient communities.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Lerch, Daniel (EDT) Lerch
• Assisted by: Daniel Lerch (Editor), Lerch Daniel (Editor)
• Publisher: Island Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781610918602
• ISBN: 978-1-61091-860-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, ARCHITECTURE / Sustainability & Green Design, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Environmental policy and protocols