Building Resilient Regions

Author : Chisato Asahi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811376191

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Building Resilient Regions by Chisato Asahi Pdf

This book focuses on building regional resilience by comprehensively improving regional assets. Regional vulnerability depends on the availability of regional assets for the population, as well as the population’s ability to access those assets. Such assets include the environment, population size, community, and human capital, as well as traditional physical infrastructure. Identifying and improving these regional assets, which provide resource flows to help cope with regional disruptions—natural disasters, economic crises, or demographic changes— serves to mitigate vulnerability and build resiliency. The book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to investigating regional resilience, bringing together welfare and environmental economics, public administration, risk and disaster management, policy studies, development studies, and landscape architecture. Up-to-date case studies are provided, including recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in Japan, regional development for depopulation areas, and urban policy for smart cities. These studies reflect and share the latest findings on key issues, policymaking and implementation processes, and implications for evaluation methodologies—all of which are indispensable to the building of resilient regions. This book is highly recommended for researchers and practitioners seeking a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to regional and urban development. It provides a valuable reference guide to building resiliency and mitigating vulnerability, both of which are imperative to achieving sustainable regions.

Author : Margaret Weir,Nancy Pindus,Howard Wial
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815722854

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Urban and Regional Policy and its Effects by Margaret Weir,Nancy Pindus,Howard Wial Pdf

The mission of the Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects series is to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing the key social and economic problems facing today's cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas. Volume four of the series introduces and examines thoroughly the concept of regional resilience, explaining how resilience can be promoted—or impeded—by regional characteristics and public policies. The authors illuminate how the walls that now segment metropolitan regions across political jurisdictions and across institutions—and the gaps that separate federal laws from regional realities—have to be bridged in order for regions to cultivate resilience. Contributors: Patricia Atkins, George Washington University; Pamela Blumenthal, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Sarah Ficenec, George Washington University; Alec Friedhoff, Brookings Institution; Kathryn Foster, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Juliet Gainsborough, Bentley University; Edward Hill, Cleveland State University; Kate Lowe, Cornell University; John Mollenkopf, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Mai Nguyen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Manuel Pastor, University of Southern California; Rolf Pendall, Urban Institute; Nancy Pindus, Urban Institute; Sarah Reckhow, Michigan State University; Travis St. Clair, George Washington University; Todd Swanstrom, University of Missouri, St. Louis; Margaret Weir, University of California, Berkeley; Howard Wial, Brookings Institution; Harold Wolman, George Washington University

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : City planning
ISBN : OCLC:1114343381

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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret Weir,Nancy Pindus,Howard Wial,Harold Wolman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:883748925

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Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, Volume 4 by Margaret Weir,Nancy Pindus,Howard Wial,Harold Wolman Pdf

Brings policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on urban and regional policy issues. Conceptualizes fresh thinking of different aspects (economic development, education, land use), presenting main themes and implications and identifying gaps to fill for successful formulation and implementation of urban and regional policy.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264120983

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OECD Regional Outlook 2011 Building Resilient Regions for Stronger Economies by OECD Pdf

The OECD Regional Outlook 2011 provides an overview of the main developments in performance among OECD regions and the challenges for regional policy after the crisis.

Author : Bruce Glavovic,Mick Kelly,Robert Kay,Ailbhe Travers
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781482288582

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Climate Change and the Coast by Bruce Glavovic,Mick Kelly,Robert Kay,Ailbhe Travers Pdf

Coastal communities are at the frontline of a changing climate. Escalating problems created by sea-level rise, a greater number of severe coastal storms, and other repercussions of climate change will exacerbate already pervasive impacts resulting from rapid coastal population growth and intensification of development. To prosper in the coming deca

Author : Gillian Bristow,Adrian Healy
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785360862

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Handbook on Regional Economic Resilience by Gillian Bristow,Adrian Healy Pdf

This Handbook provides a collection of high quality contributions on the state of the art in current debates around the concept of regional economic resilience. It provides critical contributions from leading authors in the field, and captures both key theoretical debates around the meaning of resilience, its conceptual framing and utility, as well as empirical interrogation of its key determinants in different international contexts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781437984989

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New Orleans Index at Five: An Overview of Greater New Orleans: From Recovery to Transformation by Anonim Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264111700

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OECD Regional Outlook 2011 Building Resilient Regions for Stronger Economies by OECD Pdf

The OECD Regional Outlook 2011 provides an overview of the main developments in performance among OECD regions and the challenges for regional policy after the crisis.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economic forecasting
ISBN : OCLC:1010615717

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OECD Regional Outlook 2011 by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

Provides an overview of the main developments in performance among OECD regions and the challenges for regional policy after the crisis. The first two chapters present fresh analysis of regional growth and labor-market trends, exploring their implications for policy. This is followed by three chapters offering focused analyses of key policy issues. The first concerns the state of sub-national government finances in the wake of the crisis and its implications for managing public investment, in particular, during a period of austerity. The next two chapters are concerned with the potential contribution of regions and regional policies to addressing the longer-term challenges of innovation and green growth. Part 3 presents a "policy forum", a wide-ranging debate on the role of regional policy.--Publisher description

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of Special Projects,Committee on Measuring Community Resilience
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309489720

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Building and Measuring Community Resilience by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Office of Special Projects,Committee on Measuring Community Resilience Pdf

The frequency and severity of disasters over the last few decades have presented unprecedented challenges for communities across the United States. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina exposed the complexity and breadth of a deadly combination of existing community stressors, aging infrastructure, and a powerful natural hazard. In many ways, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was a turning point for understanding and managing disasters, as well as related plan making and policy formulation. It brought the phrase "community resilience" into the lexicon of disaster management. Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research Program summarizes the existing portfolio of relevant or related resilience measurement efforts and notes gaps and challenges associated with them. It describes how some communities build and measure resilience and offers four key actions that communities could take to build and measure their resilience in order to address gaps identified in current community resilience measurement efforts. This report also provides recommendations to the Gulf Research Program to build and measure resilience in the Gulf of Mexico region.

Author : Alice C. Hill,Leonardo Martinez-Diaz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Climate change mitigation
ISBN : 9780190909345

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Building a Resilient Tomorrow by Alice C. Hill,Leonardo Martinez-Diaz Pdf

Even under the most optimistic scenarios, significant global climate change is now inevitable. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, Building a Resilient Tomorrow presents replicable sustainability successes and clear-cut policy recommendations that can improve the climate resilience of communities in the US and beyond.

Author : Chan-Hoong Leong,Lai-Choo Malone-Lee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811370489

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Building Resilient Neighbourhoods in Singapore by Chan-Hoong Leong,Lai-Choo Malone-Lee Pdf

This book examines how institutional and environmental features in neighbourhoods can contribute to social resilience, highlighting the related socio-demographic issues, as well as the infrastructure, planning, design and policies issues. It is divided into three themes – infrastructure, planning, and community. Infrastructure examines how physical features such as parks and street patterns influence neighborliness and resilience, while planning studies how urban design enhances social interactions. Lastly, community discusses policies that can forge social bonds, either through racial integration, grassroots activities, or social service. Overall, the book combines research and empirical work with scholarly models of resilience and governance philosophy, focusing on Singapore’s urban planning and social policies.

Author : National Academies,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy,Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309261500

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Disaster Resilience by National Academies,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy,Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters Pdf

No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its communities. Communities and the nation thus face difficult fiscal, social, cultural, and environmental choices about the best ways to ensure basic security and quality of life against hazards, deliberate attacks, and disasters. Beyond the unquantifiable costs of injury and loss of life from disasters, statistics for 2011 alone indicate economic damages from natural disasters in the United States exceeded $55 billion, with 14 events costing more than a billion dollars in damages each. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience-the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book's authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses-rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264189577

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OECD Regional Development Studies Policy Making after Disasters Helping Regions Become Resilient – The Case of Post-Earthquake Abruzzo by OECD Pdf

This report suggests that Abruzzo should focus on endogenous resources to build its long-term development strategy and, at the same time, to increase the external openness of the regional system to attract more entrepreneurs, students, foreigners and external capital.