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... challenges of yesterday have become today’s resilience crises. National and global efforts have failed to ... these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the community level. But what does that mean in ... in a way that’s effective and equitable? The Community Resilience Reader offers a new vision for creating ...
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In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the ... both the scientific community and the general public. In Resilience Practice , authors Brian Walker and David Salt take the notion of resilience one step further, applying resilience thinking to ...
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for ... such as climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory over the past three decades in an effort to ... and nonlinear dynamics of complex adaptive systems. Resilience theory is especially important to environmental ...
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
... ecosystems have focused in recent years on the concept of "resilience." Traditional perspectives held that ecological systems exist close to a steady state and resilience is the ability of the system to return rapidly to ... into an entirely different regime of behavior, and where resilience is measured by the magnitude of disturbance that ...
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... cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the ... human politics, and history shape the prospects for resilience? Most books set out “the answer.” This ...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
... population inhabits coastal areas. In Planning for Coastal Resilience , Tim Beatley argues that, in the face of such ... and management must reflect a commitment to the concept of resilience. In this timely book, he writes that coastal resilience must become the primary design and planning ...
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Book Category: Ecosystem Science & Management
... control, more intensification, and greater efficiency. "Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding ... that opens up options rather than closing them down. In Resilience Thinking , scientist Brian Walker and science ... an accessible introduction to the emerging paradigm of resilience. The book arose out of appeals from colleagues in ...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
Structures of Coastal Resilience presents new strategies for creative and ... of research on new approaches to effective coastal resilience planning for over a decade. In Structures of Coastal Resilience , they reimagine how coastal planning might better ...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
... communities are achievable. In Planning for Community Resilience the authors describe an inclusive process for ... the best planning strategy. Planning for Community Resilience will be invaluable to professionals working to ...
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Book Category: Land Use Planning
... a new approach to community engagement is essential. In Resilience for All, Barbara Brown Wilson looks at less ...