Community resilience and environmental transitions /

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Author / Creator:Wilson, G. A. (Geoffrey Alan), 1961-
Imprint:Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.
Description:xi, 251 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8678107
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ISBN:9781849711517 (hb)
1849711518 (hb)
9780203144916 (eb)
0203144910 (eb)
Notes:Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Towards a framework for understanding community resilience
  • Transition theory: environmental pathways and resilient communities
  • System memory: community learning, tradition and historical networks
  • Path dependency: 'lock-in' mechanisms and pathways of the '(im)possible'
  • Transitional corridors: external constraints for endogenous community resilience
  • Environmental transitions and the policy challenge: how to make local communities more resilient
  • Conclusions.