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Resilience : the governance of complexity / David Chandler.
Van Pelt Library JF1525.C74 C43 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chandler, David, 1962- author.
- Series:
- Critical issues in global politics ; 7.
- Critical issues in global politics ; 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crisis management in government.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- International relations--Philosophy.
- International relations.
- Complexity (Philosophy).
- Organizational resilience--Political aspects.
- Organizational resilience.
- Physical Description:
- x, 258 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
- Summary:
- "Resilience has become a central concept in government policy understandings over the last decade. In our complex, global and interconnected world, resilience appears to be the policy 'buzzword' of choice, alleged to be the solution to a wide and ever-growing range of policy issues. This book analyses the key aspects of resilience-thinking and highlights how resilience impacts upon traditional conceptions of governance. This concise and accessible book investigates how resilience-thinking adds new insights into how politics (both domestically and internationally) is understood to work and how problems are perceived and addressed; from educational training in schools to global ethics and from responses to shock events and natural disasters to long-term international policies to promote peace and development. This book also raises searching questions about how resilience-thinking influences the types of knowledge and understanding we value and challenges traditional conceptions of social and political processes.It sets forward a new and clear conceptualisation of resilience, of use to students, academics and policy-makers, emphasising the links between the rise of resilience and awareness of the complex nature of problems and policy-making"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415741392
- 0415741394
- 9780415741408
- 0415741408
- OCLC:
- 864506326
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