The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610918606 ISBN 13: 9781610918602

Publisher: Island Press, 2017

Synopsis

The sustainability challenges of yesterday have become today’s resilience crises. 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. But what does that mean in practice, and how can it be done in a way that’s effective and equitable?

The Community Resilience Reader offers a new vision for creating resilience, through essays by leaders in such varied fields as science, policy, community building, and urban design. 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 with community issues on the ground. It shows that resilience is a process, not a goal; how resilience requires learning to adapt but also preparing to transform; and that resilience starts and ends with the people living in a community. Despite the formidable challenges we face, The Community Resilience Reader shows that building strength and resilience at the community level is not only crucial, but possible.

From Post Carbon Institute, the producers of the award-winning The Post Carbon Reader, The Community Resilience Reader is a valuable resource for students, community leaders, and concerned citizens.

About this title

Book Description:

Essays by resilience leaders give an essential overview to creating resilient communities 

From the Back Cover:

Contributors include:
 
Daniel Lerch
Leena Iyengar
Richard Heinberg
Joshua Farley
Sarah Byrnes & Chuck Collins
William Rees
Howard Silverman
Margaret Robertson
Brian Walker & David Salt
Stephanie Mills
Denise Fairchild & Al Weinrub
Rebecca Wodder
Scott Sawyer
William Throop
Rosemary Cooper
Mike Lydon
Asher Miller

About this edition

• Publisher: Island Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1610918606
• ISBN 13: 9781610918602
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Lerch Daniel