Ecological resilience : response to climate change and natural disasters /: response to climate change and natural disasters. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kimberly Etingoff.
• Editors: Etingoff, Kimberly
• Contents: Introduction. Defining and Measuring Resilience. Understanding Resilient Urban Futures: A Systemic Modelling Approach. Towards Sustainable Cities: Extending Resilience with Insights from Vulnerability and Transition Theory. Resilience Attributes of Social-Ecological Systems: Framing Metrics for Management. General Resilience Strategies. Community Vitality: The Role of Community-Level Resilience Adaptation and Innovation in Sustainable Development. Cross-Scale and Cross-Level Dynamics: Governance and Capacity for Resilience in a Social-Ecological System in Taiwan. Towards Enhanced Resilience in City Design: A Proposition. Considering Hazard Estimation Uncertain in Urban Resilience Strategies. Energy Resilience. Resilience, Sustainability and Risk Management: A Focus on Energy. Public Health Resilience. Resilience to the Health Risks of Extreme Weather Events in a Changing Climate in the United States. Building Resilience against Climate Effects: A Novel Framework to Facilitate Climate Readiness in Public Health Agencies. The Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience Project: A Community-Level, Public Health Initiative to Build Community Disaster Resilience. Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Toronto : Apple Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 333.7; Resilience (Ecology); Climatic changes -- Social aspects; Natural disasters -- Social aspects; Sustainable development
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781771883115
• Related ISBNs: 9781771883108
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