Prospects for Resilience Insights from New York City’s Jamaica Bay /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sanderson, Eric W. (Editor), Solecki, William D. (Editor), Waldman, John R. (Editor), Parris, Adam S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016.
• Subjects: Environment.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Environment, general.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings.

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...