The Community Resilience Reader - 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 Community Resilience Reader write by Daniel Lerch. This book was released on 2017-10-12. The Community Resilience Reader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. National and global efforts have failed to stop climate change, transition from fossil fuels, and reduce inequality. We must now confront these and other increasingly complex problems by building resilience at the community level. The Community Resilience Reader combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working on the ground to present a new vision for creating resilience. It shows that resilience is a process, not a goal; how it requires learning to adapt but also preparing to transform; and that it starts and ends with the people living in a community. From Post Carbon Institute, the producers of the award-winning The Post Carbon Reader, The Community Resilience Reader is a valuable resource for community leaders, college students, and concerned citizens.
Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions
Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions - 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 Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions write by Geoff Wilson. This book was released on 2012-03-12. Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world contexts. It investigates the notion of ‘resilience’ and the challenges faced by local communities around the world to deal with disturbances (natural hazards or human-made) that may threaten their long-term survival. Using global examples, specific emphasis is placed on how learning processes, traditions, policies and politics affect the resilience of communities and what constraints and opportunities exist for communities to raise resilience levels.
Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience
Six Foundations for Building 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 Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience write by Daniel Lerch. This book was released on 2015-11-16. Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience describes how communities can approach the full scope of the 21st century's challenges equitably and sustainably. The report draws on some of the most compelling recent thinking about resilience from academia, sustainability advocacy, and grassroots activism, as well as Post Carbon Institute's prior work. It is intended as an accessible resource for local leaders and activists in the United States, and as a contribution to the larger public conversation about resilience in human communities.
Resilience for All
Resilience for All - 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 Resilience for All write by Barbara Brown Wilson. This book was released on 2018-05-24. Resilience for All available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism prevent residents from having a seat at the table when decisions are made about their community. In an effort to overcome power imbalances and ensure local knowledge informs decision-making, a new approach to community engagement is essential. In Resilience for All, Barbara Brown Wilson looks at less conventional, but often more effective methods to make communities more resilient. She takes an in-depth look at what equitable, positive change through community-driven design looks like in four communities—East Biloxi, Mississippi; the Lower East Side of Manhattan; the Denby neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan; and the Cully neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. These vulnerable communities have prevailed in spite of serious urban stressors such as climate change, gentrification, and disinvestment. Wilson looks at how the lessons in the case studies and other examples might more broadly inform future practice. She shows how community-driven design projects in underserved neighborhoods can not only change the built world, but also provide opportunities for residents to build their own capacities.
Building Resilience to Trauma
Building Resilience to Trauma - 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 Building Resilience to Trauma write by Elaine Miller-Karas. This book was released on 2015-02-20. Building Resilience to Trauma available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After a traumatic experience, survivors often experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and spiritual responses that leave them feeling unbalanced and threatened. Building Resilience to Trauma explains these common responses from a biological perspective, reframing the human experience from one of shame and pathology to one of hope and biology. It also presents alternative approaches, the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM) and the Community Resiliency Model (CRM), which offer concrete and practical skills that resonate with what we know about the biology of trauma. In programs co-sponsored by the World Health Organization, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, ADRA International and the department of behavioral health of San Bernardino County, the TRM and the CRM have been used to reduce and in some cases eliminate the symptoms of trauma by helping survivors regain a sense of balance. Clinicians will find that they can use the models with almost anyone who has experienced or witnessed any event that was perceived as life threatening or posed a serious injury to themselves or to others. The models can also be used to treat symptoms of vicarious traumatization and compassion fatigue.
