The disaster resiliency challenge : transforming theory to action / edited by James Bohland, PhD., Senior Research Leader, Global Forum for Urban and Regional Resilience, Virginia Tech, Jack Harrald, PhD., Affiliate, Global Forum for Urban and Regional Resilience, Virginia Tech, Deborah Brosnan, Forum Fellow, Global Forum for Urban and Regional Resilience, Virginia Tech.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

THE DISASTERRESILIENCY CHALLENGE; CONTRIBUTORS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; Section I BUILDING RESILIENT COMMUNITIES: ADAPTIVE AND TRANSFORMATIVE PERSPECTIVES; Chapter 1 RESILIENCE: CHALLENGES OF TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE; A FRAMEWORK FOR RESILIENCE POLICY; ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK; REFERENCES; Chapter 2 BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE: ALTERNATIVE FRAMEWORKS; RESILIENCE GOALS; TRANSFORMATION VERSUS ADAPTATION: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR COMMUNITY RESILIENCE?; ESTABLISHING ADAPTATION OR TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS; Adaptive Resilience; Transformative Resilience

CONSIDERATIONS FOR BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE POLICYEquity Issues Must Be Clarified in the Policy Process; Citizen Engagement is Essential to Resilience Building; Resilience is Futurity Grounded in the Past; Ethical Considerations Must Guide Decisions; MOVING BEYOND RESISTENCE TO RESILIENCE; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 RESILIENCE IN TIME AND SPACE: LESSONS FROM ECOLOGY; IMPLICATIONS OF SCALE; INVESTING IN RESILIENCE; CAN WE ACCOUNT FOR SCALE?; Section II TECHNOLOGY AND RESILIENCE; Chapter 4 BUILDING HAZARD RESILIENT COMMUNITIES THROUGH TECHNOLOGY: PANACEA OR PROBLEM; MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES

RESPONSE TECHNOLOGIESCommunication Systems; Autonomous Platforms; SMART CITY TECHNOLOGIES; TECHNOLOGY AND RESILIENCE; Chapter 5 MICROSCALE DISASTER AND LOCAL RESILIENCY; INTRODUCTION; LITERATURE REVIEW; RESEARCH APPROACH; A Tale of Two Disasters; FINDINGS; Technology Usage; Community Networks; DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 6 BUILDING RESILIENT CITIES: HARNESSING THE POWER OF URBAN ANALYTICS; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CITY; The City As a System; Resources Fuel the System; Competition for Resources; The City Competes for Resources

Mobile Resources are the Most CompetitiveThe City Needs a Competitive Advantage; DATA-AN IMPORTANT RESOURCE TO CITIES AND URBAN AREAS; Data are Multisourced; DATA ARE OBSERVATIONAL; Data Are Noisy; Data Are Multipurposed; USEFUL URBAN ANALYTICS-THE NEW LENS; Urban Analytics; SURVIVAL AND GROWTH; COMPETITION; ADAPTATION; INNOVATION; Urban Analytics Benchmarks; Previous Performance as Reference Point; Other Cities as Reference Point; Stated Goal as Reference Point; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES

Chapter 7 CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? THE FAILURE TO DESCRIBE AND COMMUNICATE THE POSSIBLE FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOSREFERENCES; Section III SECTORIAL PERSPECTIVES ON RESILIENCE; Chapter 8 CONCEPTUALIZING FINANCIAL RESILIENCE: THE CHALLENGES FOR URBAN THEORY; THE RESILIENCE TURN IN URBAN THEORY; CONCEPTUALIZING FINANCIAL RESILIENCE; DIMENSIONS OF FINANCIAL RESILIENCE; RESILIENCE (EQUILIBRIUM, REGULATION, COMPLEXITY, GOVERNANCE); FINANCIAL RESILIENCE AND THE PROCESS OF URBANIZATION; MORE CHALLENGES FOR URBAN THEORY; OF UNTESTED HYPOTHESES AND UNTESTABLE SLOGANS; AGAINST DISCIPLINARY AMNESIA

"Resilience as a concept has become embedded in public policy discourse within countries across the world in a wide range of contexts--planning, education, emergency management, and supply chains. The goal of this book is to assist future community leaders and professionals with the subsystem components and the actions that must be taken to insure community resilience, and to alert them to the potential pitfalls when adapting their community to the challenges that continually change. The development of trust among and between diverse members of communities and the political and economic leaders is essential if our views of how to build resilience are to change. The book is divided into five sections. The first section explores the challenges of transformational change, building community resilience with alternative frameworks, and resilience in time and space with lessons from ecology. Section II covers the building of hazard resilient communities through technology, microscale disaster and local resilience, the building of resilient cities by harnessing the power of urban analytics. and the failure to describe and communicate the possible future climate change scenarios. Section III examines challenges for urban theory when conceptualizing financial resilience, the role of social capital in community disaster resilience, the challenges of citizen engagement and resilience in the Dutch disaster management, and the rationalities of extraction and resilience of fossil-fueling vulnerability in an age of extreme energy. Section IV explores shifting from risks to consequences when building resilience to mega-hazards, resilience and small island nations, the sea level rise, demographics and rural resilience on Maryland's Eastern shore, and the epicenter of community resilience in the California's San Francisco Bay Area. Section V discusses observations and challenges on building community resilience in the twenty-first century. This highly informative and indispensable volume will be meaningful for future community leaders, citizens, stakeholders, government officials, emergency management, and crisis interveners."

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