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Collaborative Resilience Moving Through Crisis to Opportunity

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ISBN-10: 0262516454

ISBN-13: 9780262516457

Edition: 2011

Authors: Bruce Evan Goldstein

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Crisis--whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence--can offer opportunities for collaboration, consensus building, and transformative social change. Communities often experience a surge of collective energy and purpose in its aftermath. Rather than focus on typical government and private-sector efforts to deal with crises through increased prevention and mitigation measures, Collaborative Resilience explores the ways we can harness the postcrisis force for recovery and change before it is eclipsed by helplessness and hopelessness. The analyses and case studies examine how communities can develop "communicative resilience," building trust…    
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Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 10/28/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Bruce Evan Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Design at theUniversity of Colorado, Denver.

Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
Introduction: Crisis and Collaborative Resilience
Understanding Collaboration
Planning Resilient Communities: Insights from Experiences with Risky Technologies
Leaping Forward: Building Resilience by Communicating Vulnerability
Complex Systems, Anticipation, and Collaborative Planning for Resilience
The Study of Slow
Creating the Climate Change Resilient Community
Collaborative Resilience Case Studies
Reaching Consensus
Conflict and Collaboration in Defining the "Desired State": The Case of Cozumel, Mexico
Getting to Resilience in a Climate-Protected Community: Early Problem-Solving Choices, Ideas, and Governance Philosophy
Collaborative Planning to Create a Network of Fisherfolk Organizations in the Caribbean
Collective Transitions and Community Resilience in the Face of Enduring Trauma
Advocating Change
Fostering Collaborative Resilience through Adaptive Comanagement: Reconciling Theory and Practice in the Management of Fisheries in the Mekong Region
Resilient Politics and a Place-Based Ethics of Care: Rethinking the City through the District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa
Shadow Networks, Social Learning, and Collaborating through Crisis: Building Resilient Forest-Based Communities in Northern Ontario, Canada
Collaborating for Transformative Resilience: Shared Identity in the U.S. Fire Learning Network
Conclusion: Communicative Resilience
Index