Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Social 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 Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Social Resilience write by Martin Endress. This book was released on 2020-04-24. Strategies, Dispositions and Resources of Social Resilience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The concept of resilience, which originally emerged in psychology, has spread to numerous disciplines and was further developed particularly in social ecology. Resilience experiences an ongoing growing reception in the humanities and historical and social sciences as well, including heterogenic approaches on how to conceptually frame resilience. Common to these approaches is, that resilience becomes topical in the context of analysing phenomena and processes of the ‘resistibility’ of certain (socio-historical) units or actors which are perceived as being faced with various constellations of disruptive change. In this context, resilience is not only taken to mean the opposite of vulnerability, but at the same time, resilience and vulnerability are understood as complementary concepts. From this perspective, vulnerability is a necessary condition of resilience and vice versa. Against this background, the present volume provides a preliminary appraisal of socio-scientific and historical resilience research by assembling contributions of authors originating from different disciplines. Thus, it fosters an interdisciplinary discussion on the theoretical and analytical potentials as well as the empirical applicability of the concept of resilience. ContentsStrategies, Dispositions and Resources – Theoretical contributions • Medieval case studies • Reflections and General Comments The EditorsDr. Martin Endreß is Professor for General Sociology at the University of Trier. Dr. Lukas Clemens is Professor for Medieval History at the University of Trier. Dr. Benjamin Rampp is research assistant for General Sociology at the University of Trier.
Environment and Infrastructure
Environment and Infrastructure - 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 Environment and Infrastructure write by Giacomo Bonan. This book was released on 2023-04-27. Environment and Infrastructure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The material and energy flows that characterized the metabolism of preindustrial and industrial societies were organized through complex infrastructures based on interwoven social and natural elements. Analyzing infrastructures from many methodological and thematic perspectives, the present volume adopts an extensive periodization to identify the undeniable changes caused by industrialization and the persistence of pre-existing features and dynamics. The contributions range from the late Middle Ages to the 1990s and deepen historical characteristics of urban metabolism, the study of energy systems and their transitions, and the management and control of water resources. These reveal the strategies societies and states adopted to transform and adapt their surrounding environment in a constant and challenging equilibrium of diverse interests, whose impact over time has had environmental consequences on a global scale.
The Post-Earthquake City
The Post-Earthquake City - 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 The Post-Earthquake City write by Paul Cloke. This book was released on 2023-02-15. The Post-Earthquake City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010–13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider ‘damage and displacement’, ‘recovery and renewal’ and ‘the city in transition’. It offers a framework for understanding the multiple experiences and realities of post-earthquake recovery. It details how the rebuilding of the city has occurred and examines what has arisen in the context of an unprecedented opportunity to refashion land uses and social experience from the ground up. A recurring tension is observed between the desire and tendency of some to reproduce previous urban orthodoxies and the experimental efforts of others to fashion new cultures of progressive place-making and attention to the more-than-human city. The book offers several lessons for understanding disaster recovery in cities. It illuminates the opportunities disasters create for both the reassertion of the familiar and the emergence of the new; highlights the divergence of lived experience during recovery; and considers the extent to which a post-disaster city is prepared for likely climate futures. The book will be valuable reading for critical disaster researchers as well as geographers, sociologists, urban planners and policy makers interested in disaster recovery.
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age
Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age - 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 Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age write by Adam Sundberg. This book was released on 2022-01-27. Natural Disaster at the Closing of the Dutch Golden Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An environmental history of natural disasters during the eighteenth-century decline of the Dutch Republic.
Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World - 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 Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World write by Lori Jones. This book was released on 2022-11-22. Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions, the collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease.
