Cathy Baldwin, Robin King

Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development

What About the People?

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers blue sky thinking from the applied social and behavioural sciences, and urban planning. It looks at case studies from twelve countries around the world focusing on initiatives for housing, public space, and transport stops, and also natural disasters.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 149mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9781138478015
• ISBN-10: 1138478016
• Artikelnr.: 52642570

Autorenporträt

Cathy Baldwin is an Applied Social and Behavioural Scientist and Public Health Consultant, Research Associate at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Researcher at Oxford Brookes University, UK. Robin King is Director of Knowledge Capture and Collaboration at the World Resources Institute (WRI), and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Glossary of terms and definitions
1. Context and Rationale
2. Spirit and Methodology
3. Social Sustainability in Routine Daily Life
4. Social Sustainability and Urban Development
5. Community Resilience and Environmental Adversities
6. Creating Built Environments that Influence Pro-Community Behaviours
7. Built Environments that Influence Socially Sustainable Behaviours
8. Socially Sustainable Communities can also be Resilient Communities
9. Findings and Conclusion
10 Recommendations: Planning and Designing for the Socially Sustainable,
Resilient Community
References
Index