
Sustainability Science
Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development
Description
Key Features
- Shows how disturbances, disruptions and disasters have always been intrinsic byproducts of the same human-environment systems that supply us with opportunities, as well as what implications that has for policy and practice towards sustainable development today
- Introduces a new approach for grasping and addressing issues of risk and resilience in relation to sustainable development that is firmly rooted in a comprehensive philosophical and theoretical foundation and clearly linking the conceptual with the practical
- Presents a holistic agenda for change that includes a more explicit role of science, reinforced focus on capacity development and the overall necessity of fundamental social change
- Features more than 150 figures, full-color photographs, diagrams, and illustrations to highlight major themes and aid in the retention of key concepts
Readership
The primary audience includes geoscientists, engineers and environmental scientists responsible for, as well as in private companies or international organizations involved in, hazard and disaster management, risk management, societal planning, and climate change adaptation. The more advocacy-oriented parts of the book will interest government policymakers. A secondary audience includes students at the graduate level taking related coursework within the disciplines outlined above.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introducing the Book
- Introduction
- Purpose of the Book
- Demarcation of the Book
- Structure of the Book
- Conclusion
- Part I. The State of the World
- Chapter 2. Our Past Defining Our Present
- Introduction
- Conquering Our Dynamic World
- Social Change over Millennia
- The Invention of Risk
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Our Sustainability Challenges
- Introduction
- Our Challenges as Discussed on World Conferences
- Our Boundaries for Sustainability
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Our Disturbances, Disruptions and Disasters in a Dynamic World
- Introduction
- Our Symptomatic Events
- Our Processes of Change
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Our Past Defining Our Present
- Part II. Approaching the World
- Chapter 5. Conceptual Frames for Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Development
- Introduction
- Philosophical Assumptions about Our World
- Development, Sustainability and Risk
- Managing Risk for Sustainable Development
- The Concept of Resilience
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Resilience—From Panacean to Pragmatic
- Introduction
- Inherent Restrictions for Measuring Resilience
- Operationalizing Resilience
- Challenges for Developing Resilience
- Linking Resilience to Other Frameworks
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. The World as Human–Environment Systems
- Introduction
- Why Human–Environment Systems?
- Systems Approaches and Concepts
- Constructing Human–Environment Systems
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Conceptual Frames for Risk, Resilience and Sustainable Development
- Part III. Changing the World
- Chapter 8. Science and Change
- Introduction
- The Sciences of the Complemental
- Two Scientific Processes
- Reliability, Validity and Workability
- Limitations of Science for Change
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Developing Capacities for Resilience
- Introduction
- Four Levels of Capacity
- Capacity Development for Resilience
- Central “Ships” in Capacity Development
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Social Change for a Resilient Society
- Introduction
- Describing Social Change
- Prescribing Social Change
- Conclusion
- Chapter 11. Concluding Remarks
- Introduction
- The State of the World
- Approaching the World
- Changing the World
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Science and Change
- References
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 302
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2014
- Published: July 23, 2014
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780444627094
- eBook ISBN: 9780444627292