Communicating Global to Local Resiliency - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communicating Global to Local Resiliency write by Emily Polk. This book was released on 2015-04-23. Communicating Global to Local Resiliency available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the communication processes of the Transition Movement, a community-led global social movement, as it was adapted in a local context. First it analyzes how the movement’s grand narratives of responding to “climate change” and creating greater “resiliency” were communicated into local community-based stories, responses, and actions in the Transition Town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Second, it seeks to understand the multilayered communication processes that facilitate these actions toward sustainable social change. Transition Amherst developed and/or supported projects that addressed reducing dependency on peak-oil, creating community-based-local economies, supporting sustainable food production and consumption, and participating in more efficient transportation, among others. The popularity of the model coincides with an increase in the interest in and use of the term “sustainability” by media, academics and policymakers around the world, and an increase in the global use of digital technology as a resource for information gathering and sharing. Thus this book situates itself at the intersections of a global environmental and economic crisis, the popularization of the term “sustainability,” and an increasingly digitized and networked global society in order to better understand how social change is contextualized and facilitated in a local community via a global network. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the theories of Transition are applied over an extended period of time in practice, on the ground in a Transition town.
Risk Communication and Community Resilience
Risk Communication and Community Resilience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Risk Communication and Community Resilience write by Bandana Kar. This book was released on 2019-05-28. Risk Communication and Community Resilience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Risk communication is crucial to building community resilience and reducing risk from extreme events. True community resilience involves accurate and timely dissemination of risk information to stakeholders. This book examines the policy and science of risk communication in the digital era. Themes include public awareness of risk and public participation in risk communication and resilience building. The first half of the book focuses on conceptual frameworks, components, and the role of citizens in risk communication. The second half examines the role of risk communication in resilience building and provides an overview of some of its challenges in the era of social media. This book looks at the effectiveness of risk communication in socially and culturally diverse communities in the developed and developing world. The interdisciplinary approach bridges academic research and applied policy action. Contributions from Latin America and Asia provide insight into global risk communication at a time when digital technologies have rapidly transformed conventional communication approaches. This book will be of critical interest to policy makers, academicians, and researchers, and will be a valuable reference source for university courses that focus on emergency management, risk communication, and resilience.
Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience
Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience write by Jeanette L. Drake. This book was released on 2015-11-05. Communicating Climate-Change and Natural Hazard Risk and Cultivating Resilience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This edited volume emphasizes risk and crisis communication principles and practices within the up-to the minute context of new technologies, a new focus on resiliency, and global environmental change. It includes contributions from experts from around the globe whose research, advocacy, teaching, work, or service in the natural or social sciences deals with risk communication and/or management surrounding natural and technological disasters, with a particular focus on climate change-related phenomena. Resilience and good communication are intimately linked and with climate change precipitating more numerous and onerous weather-related catastrophes, a conversation on resilience is timely and necessary. The goal is robust communities that are able to withstand the shock of disaster. Communicating well under ordinary circumstances is challenging; communicating during a crisis is extraordinarily difficult. This book is dedicated to all those who have directly or indirectly suffered the effects of climate change end extreme events with the hope that the advance of knowledge, implementation of sound science and appropriate policies and use of effective communication will help in reducing their vulnerability while also improving resilience in the face of often devastating natural and technological disasters.
Anthropological Optimism
Anthropological Optimism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anthropological Optimism write by Anna J. Willow. This book was released on 2023-04-25. Anthropological Optimism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book theorizes the roles of optimism in anthropological thinking, research, writing, and practice. It sets out to explore optimism’s origins and implications, its conceptual and practical value, and its capacity to contribute to contemporary anthropological aims. In an era of extensive ecological disruption and social distress, this volume contemplates how an optimistic anthropology can energize the discipline while also contributing to bettering the lives, communities, and environments of those we study. It brings together scholars diverse in background, career stage, and theoretical approach in a collective attempt to comprehend the myriad intersections of anthropology and optimism. The challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic have recently underscored the larger, longer-term catastrophes of climate change, ecosystemic collapse, social injustice, and antipathy toward scientific knowledge and those who produce it. In this context, exceedingly few anthropologists feel comfortable observing and documenting passively while their research communities face unrelenting waves of (un)natural disasters. We need to act. But we also need to hope. Discontent with the state of the world and cultural anthropology’s turn to increasingly positive, future-oriented, and engaged work have converged to unleash a courageously optimistic anthropology. This book is a timely springboard for this impactful and emergent approach.
Resilient Routing in Communication Networks
Resilient Routing in Communication Networks - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Resilient Routing in Communication Networks write by Jacek Rak. This book was released on . Resilient Routing in Communication Networks available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
