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Prospects for Resilience - Insight from New York City's Jamaica Bay (Paperback, 2nd None Ed.)
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Prospects for Resilience - Insight from New York City's Jamaica Bay (Paperback, 2nd None Ed.)
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Given the realities of climate change and sea level rise, coastal
cities around the world are struggling with questions of
resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of
the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to sustain
those states in an uncertain and tumultuous future. How do physical
conditions ecological processes, social objectives, human politics,
and history shape the prospects for resilience? Most books set out
"the answer." This book sets out a process of grappling with
holistic resilience from multiple perspectives, drawing on the
insights and experiences of more than fifty Scholars and
practitioners working together to make Jamaica Bay in New York-City
an example for the world. Prospects for Resilience establishes a
framework for understanding resilience practice in urban
watersheds. Using Jamaica Bay, the largest contiguous natural area
in New York, home to millions of New Yorkers, and a hub of global
air travel with John F.Kennedy International Airport, the authors
demonstrate how various components of social ecological systems
interact, ranging from climatic factors to plant populations to
human demographics. They also highlight essential tools for
creating resilient Watersheds, including monitoring and identifying
system indicators; computer modelling; green infrastructure; and
decision science methods. Finally, they look at the role and
importance of a "boundary organisation" like the new Science and
Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay in coordinating and
facilitating resilience work, and consider significant research
questions and prospects for the future-of urban watersheds.
Prospects for Resilience sets forth an essential foundation of
information and advice for researchers, urban planners, students
and others who need to create more resilient cities that work with,
not against, nature.
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