New perspectives on resilience in socio-economic spheres

This bookpresents a collection of papers discussing especially social factors thatsupport individuals, organizations, markets, and societies confronted withsocio-economic crises. The papers were written mainly by internationalsociologists dealing with social resilience from different viewpoints andoffering new theoretical perspectives as well as empirical facts.
Why are somany researchers, politicians, and practitioners thinking and writing aboutresilience today? Social scientists have started only recently to deal withsocial resilience in various spheres. Since not long ago, resilience wasstrongly connected with the question of what makes individuals or ecosystems toovercome threats like disruption, catastrophes, external shocks etc. Thus, anew research perspective on resilience is offered. 

List of contents

Social Resilience.- Resilience in the Economic and Social Sphere.- Theoretical Concepts.- EmpiricalEvidence.

Product details

• Assisted by: Andrea Maurer (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2016
• EAN: 9783658133276
• ISBN: 978-3-658-13327-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 212 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 296 g
• Illustrations: VI, 204 p. 4 illus. in color.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; B, Discrimination, Economic Sociology, Social Sciences, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Consumer organizations