Rethinking Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in a Time of Change
This book contributes to the literature on resilience, hazard planning, risk management, environmental policy and design, presenting articles that focus on building resilience through social and technical means. Bringing together contributions from Japane
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thinking Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in a Time of Change
Rethinking Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in a Time of Change
Wanglin Yan Will Galloway •
Editors
Rethinking Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in a Time of Change
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Editors Wanglin Yan Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Graduate School of Media and Governance Keio University Tokyo, Kanagawa Japan
ISBN 978-3-319-50169-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50171-0
Will Galloway Graduate School of Media and Governance Keio University Tokyo, Kanagawa Japan
ISBN 978-3-319-50171-0
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Foreword
With change become a fact of our modern life the timing of this collection could not be any better. How the world deals with large and serious problems is almost certainly going to shape our collective future. The problems are very challenging indeed, including such things as global emigration that result from a host of causes, from climate change, to war, or economics. As populations increase and urbanize the world over the chance that disaster will impact on our lives grows ever more likely. In this context, responding to disaster is difficult. Preparing for disaster is even harder. This book offers the lessons of practitioners who are trying to do both, and as such the breadth of topics and expertise is substantial. The editors, both based in Japan, began their work on the subject of resilience in the context of global climate change, but were forced to rethink their direction when the country was struck by an enormous earthquake and tsunami in March of 2011. By chance they had just begun to develop the Environmental Innovators Pro
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