Creating Resilient Futures

2021-10-31 Political Science

Author : Stephen Flood
Release : 2021-10-31
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Creating Resilient Futures by : Stephen Flood

Download or read book Creating Resilient Futures written by Stephen Flood. This book was released on 2021-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access edited volume critically examines a coherence building opportunity between Climate Change Adaptation, the Sustainable Development Goals and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas through presenting best practice approaches, and supporting Irish and international case studies. The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted existing global inequalities and demonstrated the scope and scale of cascading socio-ecological impacts. The impacts of climate change on our global communities will likely dwarf the disruption brought on by the pandemic, and moreover, these impacts will be more diffuse and pervasive over a longer timeframe. This edited volume considers opportunities to address global challenges in the context of developing resilience as an integrated development continuum instead of through independent and siloed agendas.

Resilient Urban Futures

2021-04-06 Science

Author : Zoé A. Hamstead
Release : 2021-04-06
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Resilient Urban Futures by : Zoé A. Hamstead

Download or read book Resilient Urban Futures written by Zoé A. Hamstead. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for more resilient futures, earnest collaboration across disciplines, and radical reconfigurations of the power regimes that have institutionalized the disenfranchisement of minority groups. Although planning processes consider visions for the future, the editors highlight a more ambitious long-term positive visioning approach that accounts for unpredictability, system dynamics and equity in decision-making. This volume brings the science of urban transformation together with practices of professionals who govern and manage our social, ecological and technological systems to design processes by which cities may achieve resilient urban futures in the face of climate change.

Retrofitting for Flood Resilience

2020-02-25 Architecture

Author : Edward Barsley
Release : 2020-02-25
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Retrofitting for Flood Resilience by : Edward Barsley

Download or read book Retrofitting for Flood Resilience written by Edward Barsley. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book educates and introduce readers to the ways in which we can adapt to the threat of flooding throughout the built and natural environment. It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of flood risk, whilst highlighting the key approaches and principles necessary for developing community and property-level flood resilience. As a comprehensive and practical manual, this book includes richly illustrated diagrams on a variety of concepts and strategies to use when designing for flood resilience. It is vital resource for anyone looking to adapt to the threat of flood risk. Highly practical handbook for architects, students, engineers, urban planners and other built environment professionals Richly illustrated with practical examples and case studies Draws on research with the Cabinet Office, Environment Agency & Local Community as well as input from academic and industry experts, homeowners and residents of communities at risk of flooding.

Building Resilient Futures

2023-06-23 Business & Economics

Author : Robert Hall
Release : 2023-06-23
Genre : Business & Economics
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Download or read book Building Resilient Futures written by Robert Hall. This book was released on 2023-06-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether a community struggling to keep its members buoyant, a business trying to stay solvent, or a nation fighting to protect its citizens, adversity and crisis impact us all. The resilient are able to pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and not only bounce back but also bounce forward. This book looks at what resilience means at times of crises as well as the in-between periods. It examines the various types of resilience, such as emotional, organisational and societal, and offers valuable insights on how to manage the consequences of upheaval and trauma. The author brings together contributors to deliver a real mix of theory, case-study evidence and anecdote in a way that is both approachable and thought provoking. It is a timely and necessary addition to a crucial topic. Very simply, professionals, practitioners, students, government ministers, and business leaders should read this now. It might be a safer, better world if people read the book and acted on it.

Structures of Coastal Resilience

2018-06-21 Architecture

Author : Catherine Seavitt Nordenson
Release : 2018-06-21
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis Structures of Coastal Resilience by : Catherine Seavitt Nordenson

Download or read book Structures of Coastal Resilience written by Catherine Seavitt Nordenson. This book was released on 2018-06-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword by Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic, The New York Times -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Designing for Coastal Resiliency -- Chapter 2. Visualizing the Coast -- Chapter 3. Reimagining the Floodplain -- Chapter 4. Mapping Coastal Futures -- Chapter 5. Centennial Projections -- Afterword by Jeffrey P. Hebert, vice-president for adaptation and resilience, The Water Institute of the Gulf -- Endnotes -- Glossary -- Index

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