Participatory Modelling For Resilient Futures

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 0444639829

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Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures by Anonim Pdf

Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures: Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up, Volume One provides an important contribution to environmental management by introducing an integrative framework for participatory research for better land use and natural resource planning, organized around compelling recent case studies. It is a valuable guide for the increasing number of students looking for solutions in sustainability science and also practitioners who are on the ground working with local communities to improve specific places. The book was developed in response to the need to provide a clear and synthetic account, in accessible and non-technical language, of the way in which innovative integrative research can help solve real world human-environment interaction problems at a range of levels and scales, e.g., participatory modelling to secure a sustainable future for a natural protected area, working with stakeholders to break the deadlock on renewable energy implementation in Europe or tackling social exclusion and reducing food carbon footprint through local agroecology schemes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780444639837

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Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures by Anonim Pdf

Participatory Modelling for Resilient Futures: Action for Managing Our Environment from the Bottom-Up, Volume One provides an important contribution to environmental management by introducing an integrative framework for participatory research for better land use and natural resource planning, organized around compelling recent case studies. It is a valuable guide for the increasing number of students looking for solutions in sustainability science and also practitioners who are on the ground working with local communities to improve specific places. The book was developed in response to the need to provide a clear and synthetic account, in accessible and non-technical language, of the way in which innovative integrative research can help solve real world human-environment interaction problems at a range of levels and scales, e.g., participatory modelling to secure a sustainable future for a natural protected area, working with stakeholders to break the deadlock on renewable energy implementation in Europe or tackling social exclusion and reducing food carbon footprint through local agroecology schemes. Makes modeling approaches accessible so environmental and natural resource managers can make more precise decisions, accounting for a positive and negative impacts of ecosystem changes Provides recent real cases to demonstrate implementation of the concepts, allowing the reader to see how to bridge scientific research and societal needs in order to effectively translate knowledge into action Provides an integrated perspective incorporating science, politics and society, as well as a toolbox of methodologies to enhance participation and engagement of key stakeholders

Author : Mandy A. van den Ende,Arjan Wardekker,Dries L.T. Hegger,Heleen L.P. Mees,Joost M. Vervoort
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031076824

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Towards a Climate-Resilient Future Together by Mandy A. van den Ende,Arjan Wardekker,Dries L.T. Hegger,Heleen L.P. Mees,Joost M. Vervoort Pdf

Although many local authorities underline the important role of citizens in climate adaptation, many experience difficulties with organizing citizen participation in a way that is meaningful to both citizens and policymakers. Climate change is for many simply not a top priority. Besides, the future is often rather abstract to people, citizens in particular. We argue that practical tools are needed to help citizens structure the process of thinking about and designing the future of their living environment under the impacts of climate change. The toolbox Towards a climate-resilient future together offers practical foresight methods and tools for organizing citizen participation in the process of building climate-resilient futures. It provides an overview of the state the art of and hands-on guidance for executing participatory foresight methods and showcases some of the lessons learned from several international research programs on citizen engagement. In doing so, the toolbox can assist practitioners, students and academics concerned with the question of how local communities in urban and rural areas could adapt to climate change impacts and become more resilient in the future. It is suitable for readers without any experience in citizen participation and/or foresight, while more experienced readers will find innovative combinations of methods and tools that are unique within the field of citizen participation and foresight..

Author : Zoé A. Hamstead,David M. Iwaniec,Timon McPhearson,Marta Berbés-Blázquez,Elizabeth M. Cook,Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030631314

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Resilient Urban Futures by Zoé A. Hamstead,David M. Iwaniec,Timon McPhearson,Marta Berbés-Blázquez,Elizabeth M. Cook,Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson Pdf

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.

Author : Chiraphol N Chiyachantana,Tamas Makany,David K Ding
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811267925

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Pioneering A Smart, Sustainable, And Resilient Future: Founder Stories And Business Models by Chiraphol N Chiyachantana,Tamas Makany,David K Ding Pdf

The Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition (LKYGBPC) is a biennial university startup challenge in Singapore which is organized by the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) at Singapore Management University. The LKYGBPC derives its name from Singapore's founding Prime Minister, who developed the country's defining business plan bringing Singapore onto the global stage. It is this spirit of entrepreneurship, innovation and ambition that the competition enshrines.This book is a practitioner's guide to the entrepreneurial journey of selected start-ups — from cradle to success. By reflecting on their personal stories, the book provides aspiring entrepreneurs with potential roadmaps on how they, too, can chase their dreams and experiment with various business models to achieve success. With real-life case studies from the finalists of the 10th Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition, Pioneering a Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Future: Founder Stories and Business Models seeks to provide readers with the framework to elicit their own blueprint for a successful venture.

Author : Hsiao-Hsuan Wang,William E. Grant
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780444641649

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Ecological Modeling by Hsiao-Hsuan Wang,William E. Grant Pdf

Ecological Modeling: An Introduction to the Art and Science of Modeling Ecological Systems, Volume 31, presents the skills needed to appropriately evaluate and use ecological models. Illustrated throughout with practical examples, the book discusses ecological modeling as both an art and a science, balancing the qualitative (artistic) side, with its foundations in common sense and modeling practice, against the quantitative (scientific) aspects of the modeling process. This book draws on the authors’ extensive experience in both teaching and using these techniques to provide readers with a practical, user-friendly guide that supports and encourages the appropriate, effective use of these tools. Provides readers with a commonsense understanding of the systems perspective and its foundations in general system theory Highlights the importance of a solid understanding of the qualitative aspects of the modeling process Facilitates the ability to appropriately evaluate and use ecological models Supports learning with a variety of simple examples to instill the desire and confidence to embark upon the modeling experience

Author : Brenda Cansino-Loeza,José Maria Ponce-Ortega
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780443135729

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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus by Brenda Cansino-Loeza,José Maria Ponce-Ortega Pdf

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Optimization Models for Decision Making covers the discussion about water, energy, and food as a crucial resource for human well-being and for sustainable development. These resources are inextricable interrelated, therefore, to cover water, energy, and food demands in different sectors and at different scales, it must be considered several sources to produce resources even conventional or unconventional, and there must be considered the interlinkages of resources for a proper integration. This book will emphasize several issues that must be considered in the design of water-energy-food nexus systems such as the selection of technologies to produce water or energy, size of technologies and food required to cover nutritional demands. Therefore, in The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Optimization Models for Decision Making, mathematical models are presented for the design of water-energy-food nexus systems involving several strategies to account for issues like sustainable development, security of resources, interest in conflicts from stakeholders, and efficient allocation of resources. Includes different optimization models for the integration of water-energy-food nexus Considers sustainability criteria in the presented models Helps readers understand different approaches for trade-off solutions Presents general software that can be used in solving different problems

Author : Munir Mandviwalla
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031611759

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Design Science Research for a Resilient Future by Munir Mandviwalla Pdf

Author : Stephen Flood,Yairen Jerez Columbié,Martin Le Tissier,Barry O'Dwyer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030807917

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Creating Resilient Futures by Stephen Flood,Yairen Jerez Columbié,Martin Le Tissier,Barry O'Dwyer Pdf

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.

Author : Astrid Carrapatoso,Edith Kürzinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136735394

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Climate-Resilient Development by Astrid Carrapatoso,Edith Kürzinger Pdf

The concept of resilience currently infuses policy debates and public discourse, and is promoted as a normative concept in climate policy making by governments, non-governmental organizations, and think-tanks. This book critically discusses climate-resilient development in the context of current deficiencies of multilateral climate management strategies and processes. It analyses innovative climate policy options at national, (inter-)regional, and local levels from a mainly Southern perspective, thus contributing to the topical debate on alternative climate governance and resilient development models. Case studies from Africa, Asia, and Latin America give a ground-level view of how ideas from resilience could be used to inform and guide more radical development and particularly how these ideas might help to rethink the notion of 'progress' in the light of environmental, social, economic, and cultural changes at multiple scales, from local to global. It integrates theory and practice with the aim of providing practical solutions to improve, complement, or, where necessary, reasonably bypass the UNFCCC process through a bottom-up approach which can effectively tap unused climate-resilient development potentials at the local, national, and regional levels. This innovative book gives students and researchers in environmental and development studies as well as policy makers and practitioners a valuable analysis of climate change mitigation and adaptation options in the absence of effective multilateral provisions.

Author : Zehrer, Anita,Glowka, Gundula,Schwaiger, Katrin Magdalena,Ranacher-Lackner, Victoria
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799873549

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Resiliency Models and Addressing Future Risks for Family Firms in the Tourism Industry by Zehrer, Anita,Glowka, Gundula,Schwaiger, Katrin Magdalena,Ranacher-Lackner, Victoria Pdf

Family-owned and family-run firms, which are mostly small and medium-sized enterprises, are important when it comes to tourist destinations. It is therefore essential to understand how family firms address future risks and the challenges they face as part of the tourism industry. Since family businesses play such an important role for the entire tourism industry, it is worthwhile to analyze this business type when it comes to organizational resilience. Further, the development of practical solutions from field or case studies are beneficial for creating valuable learning effects for both firms and destinations alike. The examination of one risk scenario and its successful or missing management might be beneficial to create useful learning effects for the future. Therefore, it is essential to understand contemporary issues and future challenges of family firms in the hospitality/service industry and to examine different perspectives at an individual, firm, and destination management level. Resiliency Models and Addressing Future Risks for Family Firms in the Tourism Industry provides an in-depth examination of tourism family firms, since these firms are essential for supplying solutions for challenges such as dealing with uncertainty, becoming or remaining resilient, and creating sustainable tourism destinations. The chapters address the challenges of sustainability and resilience in an uncertain world and connects knowledge from family business research to tourism research, focusing on hospitality. Highlighted topics include organization ambidexterity, pandemic risk, firm management and leadership, and technology use in firm operations. This book is essential for family firms, hotel management, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, tourism professionals, academicians, researchers, and students seeking the most advanced research on family firm’s resilience and risk management within the tourism industry.

Author : Hassan Qudrat-Ullah
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031406355

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Managing Complex Tasks with Systems Thinking by Hassan Qudrat-Ullah Pdf

This book is about improving human decision making and performance in complex tasks. Utilizing systems thinking approach, this book presents innovative and insightful solutions to various managerial issues in various domains including agriculture, education, climate change, digital transformation, health care, supply chains, and sustainability. Practical insights and operational causal models are systematically presented. The key features of the didactic approach of this book are core knowledge, numerous tables and figures throughout the text, system archetypes, and causal loop models. This book serves as a text for college and university courses on Systems Thinking for Management Decision Making in Complex Tasks. Researchers use the developed “causal models” to design and evaluate various decision-aiding technologies. It is used as a source of practical information for a broad community of decision-makers, researchers, and practitioners concerned with the issue of improving human performance in complex organizational tasks.

Author : Robert Hall
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781035812639

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Building Resilient Futures by Robert Hall Pdf

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.

Author : Gabriela García,Aziliz Vandesande,Fausto Cardoso,Koen Van Balen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000401271

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The Future of the Past: Paths towards Participatory Governance for Cultural Heritage by Gabriela García,Aziliz Vandesande,Fausto Cardoso,Koen Van Balen Pdf

The Future of the Past is a biennial conference generally carried out during the commemoration date of the incorporation of Santa Ana de Los Ríos de Cuenca Ecuador as a World Heritage Site (WHS). It initiated in 2014, organized by the City Preservation Management research project (CPM) of the University of Cuenca, to create a space for dialoguing among interested actors in the cultural heritage field. Since then, this space has served to exchange initiatives and to promote coordinated actions based on shared responsibility, in the local context. The third edition of this conference took place in the context of the 20th anniversary of being listed as WHS and a decade of CPM as the Southern host of the PRECOM3OS UNESCO Chair (Preventive Conservation, Maintenance and Monitoring of Monuments and Sites). For the very first time, and thanks to the collaboration with the Raymond Lemaire International Centre for Conservation of the University of Leuven (Belgium), the conference expanded its local scope. On this occasion, contributions reflected round a worldwide challenge in the cultural field: revealing the paths towards participatory governance of cultural heritage. Participatory governance is understood as institutional decision-making structures supported by shared responsibilities and rights among diverse actors.

Author : Denny Lewis-Bynoe
Publisher : Commonwealth Secretariat
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849291460

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Achieving a Resilient Future for Small States by Denny Lewis-Bynoe Pdf

The Caribbean faces numerous economic, social and environmental challenges, with current projections predicting the road ahead to be filled with low levels of growth, high debt and low resilience. In Achieving a Resilient Future for Small States: Caribbean 2050, the contributors set out a long-term, research-based strategy for avoiding these projections, recommending a number of policy interventions aimed at building the region’s resilience and development prospects. Written by influential analysts and researchers and drawing on a wide cross-section of regional stakeholders and thought leaders, the study contains an assessment of the main challenges and opportunities for the region, scenario modelling of where the region could be by 2050, and a broad vision for the region with sector specific goals of how to get there.