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The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval de Daniel Lerch

The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

Editat de Daniel Lerch Contribuţii de Sarah Byrnes, Chuck Collins, Rosemary Cooper, Denise Fairchild, Joshua Farley, Richard Heinberg, Leena Iyengar, Mike Lydon, Asher Miller, Stephanie Mills, William Rees, Margaret Robertson, David Salt, Scott Sawyer, Howard Silverman, William Throop, Brian Walker PhD, Al Weinrub, Rebecca Wodder
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 oct 2017

Sub coordonarea editorială a lui Daniel Lerch, un specialist dedicat regenerării spațiilor publice, The Community Resilience Reader se prezintă ca un manual de supraviețuire și reconstrucție pentru o epocă a turbulențelor. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care editorul a reușit să armonizeze perspectivele a peste douăzeci de experți — de la analiști politici la designeri urbani — într-un discurs coerent despre vulnerabilitatea și forța comunităților locale. Experiența de lectură este una densă, dar extrem de bine structurată, pornind de la o diagnoză severă a crizelor de mediu și economice în prima parte, pentru a oferi, în a doua jumătate, un set de instrumente pragmatice bazate pe știința rezilienței.

Simțim în aceste pagini o trecere de la teoretizarea sustenabilității de ieri la nevoia de adaptare imediată de azi. Cele 14 ilustrații incluse nu sunt simple adaosuri vizuale, ci ancore care ajută la vizualizarea unor sisteme complexe. Complementar lui [[ECO]systems of Resilience Practices](book), care pune accent pe designul teritorial, lucrarea de față se concentrează mai mult pe factorul uman și pe „alfabetizarea sistemelor”, oferind o perspectivă sociopolitică mai pronunțată. Dacă în The Energy Reader, autorul Richard Heinberg analiza devastarea cauzată de setea de resurse, aici contribuția sa se integrează într-un efort colectiv de a găsi soluții regenerabile.

Reținem că reziliența este prezentată nu ca o stare de fapt, ci ca o capacitate ce trebuie construită activ. Este un volum care nu se mulțumește să descrie colapsul, ci invită la o transformare profundă a modului în care locuim și interacționăm, fiind o resursă esențială pentru cei care caută să înțeleagă mecanismele schimbării într-o lume în continuă prefacere.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781610918602
ISBN-10: 1610918606
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 14 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Island Press
Colecția Island Press

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte este o resursă fundamentală pentru liderii locali, studenții de la urbanism și cetățenii activi care vor să treacă de la îngrijorare la acțiune. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere clară a modului în care crizele de energie, echitate și mediu sunt interconectate, primind în schimb soluții concrete pentru a construi comunități mai puternice. Este un ghid practic care demonstrează că, deși problemele globale sunt vaste, soluțiile cele mai eficiente încep la nivel de vecinătate.

Despre autor

Daniel Lerch este un expert recunoscut în planificare urbană și sustenabilitate, cu o experiență de peste un deceniu în domeniu. În calitate de manager al programului Post Carbon Cities din cadrul Post Carbon Institute, acesta oferă asistență guvernelor locale pentru a face față provocărilor legate de schimbările climatice și vârful producției de petrol. Este, de asemenea, co-fondator al proiectului The City Repair, o organizație non-profit care sprijină rezidenții în procesul de recuperare și transformare a spațiilor publice. Activitatea sa editorială și civică reflectă un angajament profund față de democratizarea soluțiilor ecologice și consolidarea rezilienței urbane.

Descriere scurtă

The sustainability challenges of yesterday have become today’s resilience crises. 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. But what does that mean in practice, and how can it be done in a way that’s effective and equitable?

The Community Resilience Reader offers a new vision for creating resilience, through essays by leaders in such varied fields as science, policy, community building, and urban design. 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 with community issues on the ground. It shows that resilience is a process, not a goal; how resilience requires learning to adapt but also preparing to transform; and that resilience starts and ends with the people living in a community. Despite the formidable challenges we face, The Community Resilience Reader shows that building strength and resilience at the community level is not only crucial, but possible.

From Post Carbon Institute, the producers of the award-winning The Post Carbon Reader, The Community Resilience Reader is a valuable resource for students, community leaders, and concerned citizens.

Notă biografică

Daniel Lerch is Publications Director of Post Carbon Institute, serving as lead editor and manager of the Institute’s books and reports. He is the author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty (2007)—the first major local government guidebook on the end of cheap oil—and was the founding chair of the Sustainable Communities Division of the American Planning Association and a founding co-director of The City Repair Project. Lerch has delivered over 100 presentations to audiences across the United States and abroad, and has been interviewed for numerous media outlets. He has worked with urban sustainability issues for over twenty years in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

Cuprins

Introduction
Daniel Lerch

PART I: Understanding Our Predicament
Chapter 1. Six Foundations for Building Community Resilience
Daniel Lerch
Chapter 2. The Environmental Crisis: The Needs of Humanity Versus the Limits of the Planet
Leena Iyengar
Chapter 3. The Energy Crisis: From Fossil Fuel Abundance to Renewable Energy Constraints
Richard Heinberg
Chapter 4. The Economic Crisis: The Limits of 20th Century Economics and Growth
Joshua Farley
Chapter 5. The Equity Crisis: The True Costs of Extractive Capitalism
Sarah Byrnes and Chuck Collins
Chapter 6. The Roots of Our Crises: Does Human Nature Drive Us Toward Collapse?
William Rees

PART II: Gathering the Needed Tools
Chapter 7. Systems Literacy: A Toolkit for Purposeful Change
Howard Silverman
Chapter 8. A Crash Course in the Science of Sustainability
Margaret Robertson
Chapter 9. A Crash Course in the Science of Resilience
Brian Walker and David Salt
Chapter 10. Pulling It All Together: Resilience, Wisdom, and Beloved Community
Stephanie Mills

PART III: Community Resilience in Action
Chapter 11. Energy Democracy
Denise Fairchild and Al Weinrub
Chapter 12. Building Community Resilience at the Water’s Edge
Rebecca Wodder
Chapter 13. Food System Lessons from Vermont
Scott Sawyer
Chapter 14. Learning Our Way Toward Resilience
William Throop
Chapter 15. Beyond Waste: Sustainable Consumption for Community Resilience
Rosemary Cooper
Chapter 16. Resilient Streets, Resilient Cities
Mike Lydon
Chapter 17. Community Resilience and the Built Environment
Daniel Lerch
Chapter 18. Conclusion: Where to Start
Asher Miller

Recenzii

"A collection of works by a diverse stable of authors that seeks to illuminate the concept of resilience...The Community Resilience Reader is a valuable resource for thinking in a new way about almost every aspect of our communities." 

"Inspirational, aspirational, and grounded enough to be practical, The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch, is a useful text for planners who wish to strive for sustainability...For those planners who entered the profession to change the world, this book might reignite that passion. For students who are just discovering planning, this book might give hope that making the world a better place is still within our grasp."

"The Post Carbon Institute does not disappoint with The Community Resilience Reader. The book offers a wealth of ideas and examples for building community resilience in all aspects of society. Post Carbon Institute offers views that may be considered radical to many—but that’s their approach, and I love it. I wholeheartedly believe my undergraduate students will greatly benefit from The Community Resilience Reader as I have."

"Daniel Lerch and others have created a comprehensive, informative, and practical guidebook for advancing our transition into the Anthropocene. The authors address at once the foundational concepts of sustainability and resilience, while providing a call to action for communities worldwide to work together and prepare for the epoch transition upon us."

"Daniel Lerch and the team at the Post Carbon Institute have done it again. This collection of authors digs deeply into the topics of global carrying capacity, economics, community, ecology, energy, and other resilience-related themes. Building on the success of the 2010 Post Carbon Reader and other publications produced by the Post Carbon Institute, this new book is a resource I will use in some of my advanced undergraduate courses. I will also recommend it to local decision makers who are trying to find ways to guide their own communities forward in a positive direction. Each chapter is nutrient dense and leads the reader to think deeply about our current operating procedures on planet earth and the need for profound change."

"The Community Resilience Reader has not come a minute too soon. This is essential reading for college classes, local planning boards, conservation commissions, community activists, resilience study groups and anyone shaken by the environmental, energy, economic and equity crises now confronting humankind. Readers looking for ways to navigate the troubled waters ahead will find innovative, thoughtful, and wise guidance throughout these pages. This book reflects the paradigm shift so desperately needed from a system of unsustainable growth to one of resilience and reintegration with the natural world. Everything that needs to be done is doable—but only if humankind digs in to do the hard work ahead. The Community Resilience Reader serves as a much needed guidepost."