Community resilience and environmental transitions
By: by Geoff Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781849711517; 9780203144916
Subjects: Rural Sociology; Community development; Sustainable development; Social aspects; Urban sociology; Environmental aspects; Disasters
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Towards a framework for understanding community resilience; title: Transition theory: environmental pathways and resilient communities; title: System memory: community learning, tradition and historical networks; title: Path dependency: 'lock-in' mechanisms and pathways of the '(im)possible'; title: Transitional corridors: external constraints for endogenous community resilience; title: Environmental transitions and the policy challenge: how to make local communities more resilient; title: Conclusions.