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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Sanderson, Eric W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Solecki, William D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Waldman, John R. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Parris, Adam S. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2016.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword
• Part I: Introduction to Resilience in Jamaica Bay
• 1. Introduction: Why Prospects for Jamaica Bay
• 2. Resilience Practice in Urban Watersheds
• Part II: Social-ecological Systems of Jamaica Bay
• 3. Dynamics of the Biophysical Systems of Jamaica Bay
• 4. Change and Resilience of Jamaica Bay's Ecological Systems
• 5. Social-Ecological System Transformation in Jamaica Bay
• Part III: Tools for Resilience Practice
• 6. Resilience Indicators and Monitoring
• 7. Computational Modelling of the Jamaica Bay System
• 8. Green Infrastructure as a Climate Change Resiliency Strategy
• 9. Application of Decision Science to Resilience Management in Jamaica Bay
• 10. Building Community Resilience Practice Capacity
• Part IV: Prospects for Resilience in Jamaica Bay
• 11. Resilience Practice and Process and Product
• Glossary
• Acknowledgments
• Index.