Transformational Resilience

Author : Bob Doppelt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351283861

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Transformational Resilience by Bob Doppelt Pdf

Using the author’s extensive experience of advising public, private and non-profit sectors on personal, organization, and community behavioral and systems change knowledge and tools, this book applies a new lens to the question of how to respond to climate change. It offers a scientifically rigorous understanding of the negative mental health and psychosocial impacts of climate change and argues that overlooking these issues will have very damaging consequences. The practical assessment of various methods to build human resilience offered by Transformational Resilience then makes a powerful case for the need to quickly expand beyond emission reductions and hardening physical infrastructure to enhance the capacity of individuals and groups to cope with the inevitable changes affecting all levels of society.Applying a trauma-informed mental health and psychosocial perspective, Transformational Resilience offers a groundbreaking approach to responding to climate disruption. The book describes how climate disruption traumatizes societies and how effective responses can catalyze positive learning, growth, and change.

Author : Amrita G. Daniere,Diane Archer
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832527160

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Adapting cities for transformative climate resilience: Lessons from the field by Amrita G. Daniere,Diane Archer Pdf

Author : van der Berg, Angela,Verschuuren, Jonathan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781803922508

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Urban Climate Resilience by van der Berg, Angela,Verschuuren, Jonathan Pdf

This significant book addresses the most important legal issues that cities face when attempting to adapt to the changing climate. This includes how to become more resilient against the impacts of climate change such as sea level rise, increases in the intensity and frequency of storms, floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures.

Author : Dennis J. Parker,Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000437485

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Environmental Hazards and Resilience by Dennis J. Parker,Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell Pdf

Building resilience to the world’s increasingly damaging environmental hazards has become a priority. This book considers the scientific advances which have been made around the world to enhance this resilience. Although resilience is not new, it is through the idea of resilience that governments, organisations, and communities around the world are now seeking to address the rapidly increasing losses that environmental hazards cause so that fewer lives are lost, and damage is reduced. Alternative ideas and approaches have been helpful in reducing loss, but resilience offers a fresh and potentially effective means of reducing it further. Adopting a scientific approach and scientific evidence is important in applying the resilience idea in hazard mitigation. However, the science of resilience is at an immature stage of development with much discussion about the concept and how it should be understood and interpreted. Building useful theories remains a challenge although some of the building blocks of theory have been developed. More attention has been given to developing indicators and frameworks of resilience which are subsequently applied to measure resilience to hazards such as flooding, earthquake, and climate change. Environmental Hazards and Resilience: Theory and Evidence considers the scientific and theoretical challenges of making progress in applying resilience to environmental hazard mitigation and provides examples from around the world – including the USA, New Zealand, China, Bangladesh and elsewhere. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Environmental Hazards.

Author : Mark Pelling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134022014

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Adaptation to Climate Change by Mark Pelling Pdf

The impacts of climate change are already being felt. Learning how to live with these impacts is a priority for human development. In this context, it is too easy to see adaptation as a narrowly defensive task – protecting core assets or functions from the risks of climate change. A more profound engagement, which sees climate change risks as a product and driver of social as well as natural systems, and their interaction, is called for. Adaptation to Climate Change argues that, without care, adaptive actions can deny the deeper political and cultural roots that call for significant change in social and political relations if human vulnerability to climate change associated risk is to be reduced. This book presents a framework for making sense of the range of choices facing humanity, structured around resilience (stability), transition (incremental social change and the exercising of existing rights) and transformation (new rights claims and changes in political regimes). The resilience-transition-transformation framework is supported by three detailed case study chapters. These also illustrate the diversity of contexts where adaption is unfolding, from organizations to urban governance and the national polity. This text is the first comprehensive analysis of the social dimensions to climate change adaptation. Clearly written in an engaging style, it provides detailed theoretical and empirical chapters and serves as an invaluable reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in climate change, geography and development studies.

Author : Andrea J. Romero
Publisher : Springer
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783319260303

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Youth-Community Partnerships for Adolescent Alcohol Prevention by Andrea J. Romero Pdf

This forward-thinking reference spotlights an expansive and inclusive community model for youth alcohol prevention as opposed to traditional individual and school-based group approaches. Focusing on a long-term intervention in a Southwestern border town, it documents the development of critical consciousness in an affected community, and emphasizes young people as crucial drivers of change in their environment. The book’s Community Readiness Model provides vital context for successful coalition building between youth, families, and community entities (e.g., schools, civic leaders, police) in reducing alcohol risk factors and promoting healthier choices. Given the severity and prevalence of youth alcohol use, this case study offers a viable blueprint for large-scale engagement in prevention. Among the featured topics: Integrating research into prevention strategies using participatory action research. Breaking down silos between community-based organizations: coalition development. Adult perspectives on nurturing youth leadership and coalition participation. Youth perspectives on youth power as the source of community dev elopment. Coalition as conclusion: tips on creating a functioning coalition. Community transformational resilience for adolescent alcohol prevention. Youth-Community Partnerships for Adolescent Alcohol Prevention is both practical and inspiring reading for researchers and other mental health professionals in psychology, social work, and public health who work with adolescents, communities, and civic engagement.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264868793

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Net Zero+ Climate and Economic Resilience in a Changing World by OECD Pdf

This report provides a synthesis of the OECD Net Zero+ project, covering the first phase of an ongoing, cross-cutting initiative, representing a major step forward for an OECD whole-of-government approach to climate policy.

Author : Shahla Seifi,David Crowther
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781837537822

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Corporate Resilience by Shahla Seifi,David Crowther Pdf

Written by experts, the chapters collected here address various issues such as climate change and the pandemic, suggesting ways in which future crises can be managed successfully and sharing best practice from what we have learned from recent crises.

Author : Sam Fankhauser,Thomas K.J. McDermott
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781785360312

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The Economics of Climate-Resilient Development by Sam Fankhauser,Thomas K.J. McDermott Pdf

Some climate change is now inevitable and strategies to adapt to these changes are quickly developing. The question is particularly paramount for low-income countries, which are likely to be most affected. This timely and unique book takes an integrated look at the twin challenges of climate change and development. The book treats adaptation to climate change as an issue of climate-resilient development, rather than as a bespoke set of activities (flood defences, drought plans, and so on), combining climate and development challenges into a single strategy. It asks how the standard approaches to development need to change, and what socio-economic trends and urbanisation mean for the vulnerability of developing countries to climate risks. Combining conceptual thinking with practical policy prescriptions and experience the contributors argue that, to address these questions, climate risk has to be embedded fully into wider development strategies

Author : James Bohland,Jack Harrald,Deborah Brosnan
Publisher : Charles C Thomas Publisher
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780398092344

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The Disaster Resiliency Challenge by James Bohland,Jack Harrald,Deborah Brosnan Pdf

Resilience as a concept has become embedded in public policy discourse within countries across the world in a wide range of contexts--planning, education, emergency management, and supply chains. The goal of this book is to assist future community leaders and professionals with the subsystem components and the actions that must be taken to insure community resilience, and to alert them to the potential pitfalls when adapting their community to the challenges that continually change. The development of trust among and between diverse members of communities and the political and economic leaders is essential if our views of how to build resilience are to change. The book is divided into five sections. The first section explores the challenges of transformational change, building community resilience with alternative frameworks, and resilience in time and space with lessons from ecology. Section II covers the building of hazard resilient communities through technology, microscale disaster and local resilience, the building of resilient cities by harnessing the power of urban analytics. and the failure to describe and communicate the possible future climate change scenarios. Section III examines challenges for urban theory when conceptualizing financial resilience, the role of social capital in community disaster resilience, the challenges of citizen engagement and resilience in the Dutch disaster management, and the rationalities of extraction and resilience of fossil-fueling vulnerability in an age of extreme energy. Section IV explores shifting from risks to consequences when building resilience to mega-hazards, resilience and small island nations, the sea level rise, demographics and rural resilience on Maryland’s Eastern shore, and the epicenter of community resilience in the California’s San Francisco Bay Area. Section V discusses observations and challenges on building community resilience in the twenty-first century. This highly informative and indispensable volume will be meaningful for future community leaders, citizens, stakeholders, government officials, emergency management, and crisis interveners.

Author : Bob Doppelt
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000841114

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Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas by Bob Doppelt Pdf

Using extensive research, interviews with program leaders, and examples, Preventing and Healing Climate Traumas is a step-by-step guide for organizing community-based, culturally tailored, population-level mental wellness and resilience-building initiatives to prevent and heal individual and collective climate traumas. This book describes how to use a public health approach to build universal capacity for mental wellness and transformational resilience by engaging community members in building robust social support networks, making a just transition by regenerating local physical/built, economic, and ecological systems, learning how trauma and toxic stress can affect their body, mind, and emotions as well as age and culturally tailored mental wellness and resilience skills, and organizing group and community-minded events that help residents heal their traumas. These actions build community cohesion and efficacy as residents also engage in solutions to the climate emergency. This book is essential reading for grassroots, civic, non-profit, private, and public sector mental health, human services, disaster management, climate, faith, education, and other professionals, as well as members of the public concerned about these issues. Readers will come away from this book with practical methods—based on real-world examples—that they can use to organize and facilitate community-based initiatives that prevent and heal mental health and psycho-social-spiritual problems and reduce contributions to the climate crisis.

Author : Gillian Bristow,Adrian Healy
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Debra D. Joseph , Roshnie A. Doon
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783036555041

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The Impact of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations by Debra D. Joseph , Roshnie A. Doon Pdf

Climate change and urban development threaten health, undermine coping and deepen existing social and environmental inequities. A changing global environment requires transformative social responses: new partnerships, deep engagement with local communities, and innovation to strengthen individual and collective assets. The chapters of this edited volume have mainly been contributed by established and emerging scholars representing social work, sociology, development studies, law, government, social anthropology, urbanism, public policy, and other social sciences This book is to be used for academics, policy makers, social work students, lecturers and other stakeholders to promote advocacy for vulnerable client groups affected by climate change. It gives some measure of hope and makes the invisible visible, allowing for change.

Author : Michael Ungar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190095888

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Multisystemic Resilience by Michael Ungar Pdf

"Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However, while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the systems they study (e.g., a natural environment, a community post-disaster, the human mind, a computer network, or the economy), there is a lack of over-arching theory that describes: 1) whether the principles that underpin the resilience of one system are similar or different from the principles that govern resilience of other systems; 2) whether the resilience of one system affects the resilience of other co-occurring systems; and 3) whether a better understanding of resilience can inform the design of interventions, programs and policies that address "wicked" problems that are too complex to solve by changing one system at a time? In other words (and as only one example among many) are there similarities between how a person builds and sustains psychological resilience and how a forest, community or the business where he or she works remains successful and sustainable during periods of extreme adversity? Does psychological resilience in a human being influence the resilience of the forests (through a change in attitude towards conservation), community (through a healthy tolerance for differences) and businesses (by helping a workforce perform better) with which a person interacts? And finally, does this understanding of resilience help build better social and physical ecologies that support individual mental health, a sustainable environment and a successful economy at the same time?"--

Author : Elisa Innerhofer,Martin Fontanari,Harald Pechlaner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351331920

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Destination Resilience by Elisa Innerhofer,Martin Fontanari,Harald Pechlaner Pdf

This book calls for rethinking the meaning of sustainable development in tourism and explores how sustainability and resilience could be integrated. It argues that these concepts should be seen as interwoven processes, rather than alternative approaches. Resilience should be understood as a fundamental part of sustainable tourism thinking for destination systems. This can be achieved by calling for better governance in implementation and management. With insights from leading experts, chapters focus on resilient destinations from this governance perspective, in which tourism resilience is contextualized as an integral part of pathway creation in the process of moving towards sustainable tourism. The chapters represent a range of theoretical and empirical approaches with a wide international scope to demonstrate how governance is the key issue in sustainable tourism development. This book will appeal to a wide range of research disciplines and students whose modules focus on the relationship between tourism with respect to sustainability planning, governance, environment, and hazards and disasters.