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The Community Resilience Reader

Name: The Community Resilience Reader
Brand: ISLAND PRESS
SKU: 9781610918602
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ISLAND PRESSISBN: 9781610918602

Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

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Edited by Daniel Lerch
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Release Date: December 14, 2017
Format: PAPERBACK
Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
Weight: 480 g
Pages: 351

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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.

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

"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."

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