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Prospects for Resilience
Sanderson, Eric W.; Solecki, William D.; Waldman, John R.; Parris, Dr Adam S.
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Description for Prospects for Resilience
Paperback. Drawing on lessons from Jamaica Bay in New York City, the editors compile the insights of more than fifty scholars and practitioners on creating resilient cities that work with nature. Num Pages: 304 pages, 50 photographs. BIC Classification: AMCR; AMVD; JFSG; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 257 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 558.
Given the realities of climate change and sea level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous future. How do physical conditions ecological processes, social objectives, human politics, and history shape the prospects for resilience? Most books set out "the answer." This book sets out a process of grappling with holistic resilience from multiple perspectives, drawing on the insights and experiences of more than fifty Scholars and practitioners working together to ... Read more
Given the realities of climate change and sea level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous future. How do physical conditions ecological processes, social objectives, human politics, and history shape the prospects for resilience? Most books set out "the answer." This book sets out a process of grappling with holistic resilience from multiple perspectives, drawing on the insights and experiences of more than fifty Scholars and practitioners working together to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Island Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781610917339
SKU
V9781610917339
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Ref
99-15
About Sanderson, Eric W.; Solecki, William D.; Waldman, John R.; Parris, Dr Adam S.
Eric W. Sanderson is a senior conservation ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Dr. Sanderson is the best-selling author of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (2009). William Solecki is a professor of geography at Hunter College, CUNY and served as the interim Executive Director of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay for its first two ... Read more
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