Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience to Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing

Bob Doppelt

ISBN 10: 1783535288 / ISBN 13: 9781783535286

Published by Routledge 2016-02-25, 2016

About this Item

Seller Inventory # 6666-IUK-9781783535286

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transformational Resilience: How Building Human Resilience to Climate Disruption Can Safeguard Society and Increase Wellbeing
• Publisher: Routledge 2016-02-25
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783535288
• ISBN 13: 9781783535286
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Using the author’s extensive experience of advising public, private and non-profit sectors on personal, organization, and community behavioral and systems change knowledge and tools, this book applies a new lens to the question of how to respond to climate change. It offers a scientifically rigorous understanding of the negative mental health and psychosocial impacts of climate change and argues that overlooking these issues will have very damaging consequences. The practical assessment of various methods to build human resilience offered by Transformational Resilience then makes a powerful case for the need to quickly expand beyond emission reductions and hardening physical infrastructure to enhance the capacity of individuals and groups to cope with the inevitable changes affecting all levels of society.Applying a trauma-informed mental health and psychosocial perspective, Transformational Resilience offers a groundbreaking approach to responding to climate disruption. The book describes how climate disruption traumatizes societies and how effective responses can catalyze positive learning, growth, and change.

About the Author

Doppelt, Bob