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Resilience imperative : uncertainty, risks and disasters /
"We have to adapt to the impacts that, unfortunately, we can no longer avoid", said President Obama at the UN Climate Summit in September 2014. Adaptation and resilience are now a must in both academic research and international bodies. A fashionable concept, resilience's polysemy spa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
ISTE Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Resilience Imperative; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; I.1. Resilience, Polysemy, Cacophony or Quandary?; I.2. Defining Resilience; I.3. Resilience Put to the Test: The Theoretical Issues; I.4. From Practical Application to Critical Examination; I.5. Bibliography; Chapter 1: Defining Resilience: When the Concept Resists; 1.1. A Multidisciplinary Construct; 1.2. Transfers in Cindynics; 1.3. Defining Resilience; 1.4. Two Concepts for a Single Word; 1.5. Conclusion; 1.6. Bibliography; Chapter 2: Resilience and Vulnerability: From Opposition towards a Continuum.
- 2.1. One or Several Vulnerabilities?2.2. The Vulnerability/Resilience Pair; 2.3. Beyond Opposition: The Notion of "Resiliencery Vulnerability"; 2.4. Conclusion; 2.5. Bibliography; Chapter 3: Resilience: A Question of Scale; 3.1. Resilience as a Scalar Problem; 3.2. The "Glocalization" of Risk and Scalar Reconfiguration of Resilience; 3.3. Changing Scales to Explain Resilience; 3.4. Conclusion; 3.5. Bibliography; Chapter 4: Resilience: A Systemic Property; 4.1. Resilience and Systemic Analysis; 4.2. The Case of the City, a Complex Sociosystem.
- 4.3. Maintaining the Cohesion of the System to Overcome the Crisis4.4. Conclusion; 4.5. Bibliography; Chapter 5: From the Resilience of Constructions to the Resilience of Territories: A New Framework for Thought and for Action; 5.1. The Conditions of Resilient Planning on the Scale of the Territory; 5.2. Applying Resilience: Adaptation and Resistance of the Material Components; 5.3. Conclusion; 5.4. Bibliography; Chapter 6: Adapting Territorial Systems Through Their Components: The Case of Critical Networks; 6.1. Technical and Critical Networks, Strategic Elements of Resilience.
- 6.2. Choosing Adaptations6.3. Conclusion; 6.4. Bibliography; Chapter 7: Resilience and Global Climate Change; 7.1. Resilience and Global Change: Scales, Temporalities Anduncertainty; 7.2. Adaptation to Global Change and Resilience; 7.3. Urban Resilience and Sustainable Urban Planning Practices; 7.4. Conclusion; 7.5. Bibliography; Chapter 8: Organizational Resilience: Preparing and Overcoming Crisis; 8.1. The Components and Temporalities of a Crisis; 8.2. Lessons from Feedback; 8.3. Organizing to Overcome a Crisis; 8.4. Conclusion; 8.5. Bibliography.
- Chapter 9: (Re)Constructing Resilient Districts: Experiences Compared9.1. (Re)New Orleans: Big Easy as a Resilience Laboratory; 9.2. Urban Renewal and Resilience in East London: The Thames Gateway; 9.3. Conclusion; 9.4. Bibliography; Chapter 10: Resilience, Memory and Practices; 10.1. The Resilient System Between Identity and Evolution; 10.2. Resilience and Retaining a Memory of Risk; 10.3. The Problem of Identity; 10.4. Conclusion; 10.5. Bibliography; Chapter 11: Critique of Pure Resilience; 11.1. Resilience to the Test of Discourses; 11.2. The Dark Side of Resilience.