What makes a community resilient? How do we ensure its sustainable
future? Resilience-the unique ability to positively adapt to
changing physical and social environments-is essential for
populations of all sizes and locales in today's world of unexpected
changes and increasing instances of environmental change.
Communities around the globe possess unique combinations of
culture, skills, and abilities in context of unique built and
natural environments. Identifying and mapping community strengths
and resources facilitates effective planning for where and how to
focus and manage their unique cultures and characteristics.
Resilient Communities across Geographies is a collection of case
studies examining the application of geographic information systems
(GIS) to environmental and socioeconomic challenges for analysis,
planning, and, ultimately, more resilient communities. Each chapter
discusses a spatially driven approach to challenges in geography,
social sciences, landscape architecture, urban planning,
environmental studies, sociology, economics, migration, community
development, meteorology, oceanography, and other fields. Examples
explore both the natural and cultural contexts of climate
adaptation in built environments and cultural impacts in a
diversity of communities. These include the Martu people of
Australia, First Nation youth in Canada, and cultural diversity of
indigenous Los Angeles to California farmworkers facing exposure to
agricultural chemicals in their communities. Each example applies
powerful GIS tools and analysis to document, support, and assess
resilience across these unique geographies while recognizing the
value and strength which lies in the diversity of the people who
live there. The stories shared within Resilient Communities across
Geographies help readers develop an expanded sense of the power of
spatial thinking, local knowledge, and engagement to address the
difficult problems we collectively face in various locales. Edited
by the authors of GIS Research Methods with a foreword by Esri
Chief Medical Officer Este Geraghty.
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