Katrina Brown

Gebundenes Buch

Resilience, Development and Global Change

Beschreibung

Resilience, Development and Global Change presents a sophisticated, theoretically informed synthesis of resilience thinking across disciplines. It applies resilience ideas specifically to international development and relates resilience to core theories in development and shows how a radical, resilience-based approach to development might transform responses to climate change, to the dilemmas of managing forests and ecosystems, and to rural and urban poverty in the developing world.

Autor

Katrina Brown is Professor of Social Sciences at the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter, based in Cornwall in the UK. She has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary analysis of, and innovative approaches to, environmental change and international development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780415663465
• ISBN-10: 0415663466
• Artikelnr.: 42788972

Rezensionen

It was rewarding to read a book that discusses and illustrates resilience from so many perspectives. Researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners concerned with global change will appreciate Katrina Brown's re-visioning of resilience as an opportunity to collectively negotiate and influence current and future sustainabilities.

Professor Karen O'Brien, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo

This book provides an examination of the rise of resilience as a cross-disciplinary concept and framework within global development. The political ecology approach taken through the book provides a critical examination that links with contemporary debates in policy and practice

around poverty and climate change. Populated with illuminating case studies, this is essential reading for anyone interested in truly sustainable development goals.

Dr Thomas Tanner, Head of Adaptation and Resilience, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK

With its bountiful exhibits of 18 figures, 28 tables, 18 text boxes, a useful glossary and hundreds of up to date and relevant references, this book is a crucial resource for lecturers and new resilience scholars... Books such as Resilience, Development and Global Change add value to knowledge in ways that tweets, brief journal papers and rambling websites will never be able to do. Just read it.

Christo Fabricius, Sustainability Research Unit Nelson Mandela University, South Africa