Community resilience and environmental transitions / / by Geoff A. Wilson |
Autore | Wilson G. A (Geoffrey Alan), <1961-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 p.) |
Disciplina | 307.1/401 |
Soggetto topico |
Community development
Community development - Environmental aspects Sociology, Urban Sociology, Rural Sustainable development Disasters - Social aspects |
ISBN |
1-136-50452-4
1-136-50453-2 0-203-14491-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Resilience, transition theory, and economic, social and environmental capital; 1.2 Aim of the book: understanding environmental and societal transitions at community level; 1.3 Community resilience and anthropogenic and natural disturbances; 1.4 Structure of the book; 2. Towards a framework for understanding community resilience; 2.1 Introduction
2.2 Conceptualizing community resilience at the intersection between economic, social and environmental capital2.3 Characteristics of resilient communities; 2.4 Community resilience and 'open' and 'closed' systems: geographical and socio-cultural boundaries of communities; 2.5 How can we measure the resilience of communities? Some methodological considerations; 2.6 Conclusions; 3. Transition theory: pathways of change and resilient communities; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Transition theory and community pathways 3.3 Environmental transitions at community level: from subsistence communities to relocalized pathways3.4 Conclusions; 4. Social memory: community learning, tradition, stakeholder networks and community resilience; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Social memory at local community level; 4.3 Social memory and community resilience; 4.4 Conclusions; 5. Path dependency: 'lock-in' mechanisms, power structures and pathways of the (im)possible at community level; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Understanding path dependency at community level; 5.3 Lock-in effects at community level 5.4 Endogenous path dependency at community level: examples from the developed and developing world5.5 Path dependency and transitional ruptures at community level: pathways of the (im)possible?; 5.6 Conclusions; 6. Transitional corridors: macro-structural influences and community resilience; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Transitional corridors; 6.3 Lock-in effects and transitional corridors; 6.4 Macro-level ruptures and transitional corridors; 6.5 Conclusions; 7. Community resilience and the policy challenge; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Transitional corridors and policy 7.3 Transitional corridors and policy challenges7.4 Policies for community resilience as a win-win situation or zero-sum game?; 7.5 Managing global resilience transitions; 7.6 Conclusions; 8. Conclusions; 8.1 Theoretical and conceptual considerations; 8.2 Opportunities for future research on community resilience; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828463103321 |
Wilson G. A (Geoffrey Alan), <1961-> | ||
Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Multifunctional agriculture : a transition theory perspective / / Geoff A. Wilson |
Autore | Wilson G. A (Geoffrey Alan), <1961-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wallingford, : CABI, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (384 p.) |
Disciplina | 338.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Agriculture and state
Agriculture - Economic aspects Agriculture - Environmental aspects |
ISBN |
1-280-85894-X
9786610858941 1-84593-257-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of tables and figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part 1 Conceptualising transition; Part 2 From productivist to post-productivist agriculture ... and back again?; Part 3 Conceptualising multifunctional agricultural transitions; References; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910446343103321 |
Wilson G. A (Geoffrey Alan), <1961-> | ||
Wallingford, : CABI, c2007 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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