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This volume brings together specialists from fields like science, policy, community building, and urban design from North America, Australia, and Europe to outline resources for community resilience in the face of environmental, energy, economic, and equity crises. They offer 18 chapters that explore resilience thinking and related tools and illustrate how the idea of community resilience building can be applied to specific areas, such as energy, food, and consumption. They outline six foundations for effective community resilience building, then discuss the four crises, their impacts, and underlying drivers; the tools of systems literacy, sustainability science, and resilience science; and applications to energy, food, waste and consumption, streets, water, and the built environment, as well as educational tools for resilience building. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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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.
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