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What makes a community resilient? How do we ensure its sustainable future? Resilience-the keen ability to adapt to changing physical environments-is essential for populations of all sizes and locales in today's world of unexpected changes. Resilience is not only an ideal; it is something that can be achieved through intelligent planning and assessment. With myriad technologies available, how does a community identify which to invest in and utilize for its greater good?
Resilient Communities across Geographies is a collection of case studies examining the application of geographic information systems (GIS) to environmental and socioeconomic challenges for analysis, planning, and, ultimately, more resilient communities. Each chapter discusses a spatially driven approach to challenges in geography, social sciences, landscape architecture, urban and rural sociology, economics, and other fields. This collection of community resilience efforts includes contexts across urban and rural regions, coastal and mountainous areas, indigenous lands in the United States and Australia, and more.
The stories shared within
Resilient Communities across Geographies help readers develop an expanded sense of the power of spatial thinking and GIS to address the difficult problems we collectively face in various locations and contexts.
Edited by the authors of
GIS Research Methods with a foreword by Esri Chief Medical Officer Este Geraghty.
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Conceptualizing spatial resilience Dr. Sheila Steinberg and Dr Steven J. Steinberg
Chapter 2. Resilience in coastal regions: the case of Georgia, USA
Chapter 3. Building resilient regions: Spatial analysis as a rool for ecosystem-based climate adaptation
Chapter 4. The mouth of the Columbia River: USACE, GIS and resilience in a dynamic coastal system
Chapter 5. Urban resilience: Neighborhood cmplexity and the importance of social connectivity
Chapter 6. Mapping Indigenous LA
Chapter 7. Indigenous Martu knowledge: Mapping place through song and story
Chapter 8. Developing resiliency through place-based inquiry in Canada
Chapter 9. Engaging Youth in Spatial Modes of Thought toward Social and Environmental Resilience
Chapter 10. Health, Place, and Space: Public Participation GIS for Rural Community Power
Chapter 11. Best Practices for Using Local Knowledge
Contributors
Index
About the author
Sheila Lakshmi Steinberg - Steven J. Steinberg - Este Geraghty
Summary
A hybrid of theory and action, Resilient Communities across Geographies uses case studies to examine how global communities use GIS analysis, local knowledge, and engagement to realize resilience.
