The Resilience Dividend - Softcover

Rodin, Judith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781253633 ISBN 13: 9781781253632

Publisher: Profile Books, 2014

Synopsis

New york. Athens. Wenzhou. Boston. Oslo. Dhaka. New orleans. Nairobi. In recent years, dozens of cities across the globe have been hit by large-scale catastrophes of every kind: natural disaster, geopolitical conflict, food shortages, disease and contagion, terrorist attacks. If you haven't been directly touched by one of these cataclysms yourself, in our interconnected world you are sure to have been affected in some way. They harm vulnerable individuals, destabilise communities and threaten organisations and even whole societies. We are at greater risk than ever from city-wide catastrophe, and as the severity and frequency of these disasters increase, we must become better at preparing for, responding to and recovering from them. Be it haiti's dependence on humanitarian aid, the rebuilding effort after the great fire of manhattan or the reason why more girls than boys drowned in japan's tsunami, the resilience dividend combines vivid stories with practical insights (such as how to di

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Rodin is president of the Rockefeller Foundation, a highly influential philanthropic organisation created 'to promote the well-being of mankind throughout the world.' As Provost of Yale she was the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League institution, and has been recognized as one of Forbes world's 100 most powerful women,

About this edition

• Publisher: Profile Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1781253633
• ISBN 13: 9781781253632
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320