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Community resilience and environmental transitions / by Geoff A. Wilson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, G. A. (Geoffrey Alan), 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development.
- Community development--Environmental aspects.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Sociology, Rural.
- Sustainable development.
- Disasters--Social aspects.
- Disasters.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 251 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Towards a framework for understanding community resilience
- Transition theory: environmental pathways and resilient communities
- System memory: community learning, tradition and historical networks
- Path dependency: 'lock-in' mechanisms and pathways of the '(im)possible'
- Transitional corridors: external constraints for endogenous community resilience
- Environmental transitions and the policy challenge: how to make local communities more resilient
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781849711517
- 1849711518
- 9780203144916
- 0203144910
- OCLC:
- 733045208
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