Overview
Offers a framework for a new kind of scientific collaboration to address the complex goal of making our cities and natural areas more resilient
Emphasizes the need for engaging with community members to inform the decision-making process, a critical element often overlooked in resilience literature
Lead editor Eric W. Sanderson is also the author of the best-selling book, Manahatta
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Introduction to Resilience in Jamaica Bay
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Social-Ecological Systems of Jamaica Bay
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Tools for Resilience Practice
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Prospects for Resilience in Jamaica Bay
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eric W. Sanderson is a senior conservation ecologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society. He is the best-selling author of Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City (2009), which re-constructed the historical ecology of Manhattan before European discovery, and more recently of Terra Nova: The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs (2013), which surveys a path toward a sustainable future for the United States through rearrangement of the interconnections between energy, transportation, and land use policy. The author of more than 50 scientific articles, Dr. Sanderson has written about the human footprint on Earth, mechanisms for range-wide species conservation planning, including for jaguars, tigers, bison and crocodiles; and landscape level conservation issues in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. His work has been featured in the New York Times, National Geographic, and The New Yorker.
William D. SoleckiWilliam Solecki is a Professor of Geography at Hunter College, CUNY and served as the Interim Executive Director of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay for its first two years. His research interests include urban environmental change, climate impacts, and adaptation. Dr. Solecki is a founding member of both the Urban Climate Change Research Network and the International Human Dimensions Programme’s Urbanization and Global Environmental Change Project. He was the former Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities and is currently co-Chair of New York City Panel on Climate Change, and the US National Research Council’s Resilience Roundtable. Dr. Solecki has also contributed, as a lead author, to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Group II, Urban Areas Chapter.
John R. WaldmanJohn R. Waldman is a professor of biology at Queens College, CUNY. His current research interests primarily encompass the marine environments in the New York City area, including the New York Harbor and the Hudson River Estuary. Prior to his work at Queens College, Dr. Waldman worked for the Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research for 20 years. In 2006, he co-edited “The Hudson River Estuary” and “Hudson River Fishes and their Environment.” Dr. Waldman’s recent books include Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and their Great Fish Migrations (2013), Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature in New York (2013), and a revision of his award-winning book on New York Harbor, Heartbeats in the Muck: The History, Sea Life, and Environment of New York Harbor (2013).
Adam S. ParrisAdam Parris is the Executive Director of the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay, hosted at Brooklyn College. He has an extensive background in identifying and understanding the risks and concerns of climate change. He has previously served as a coastal planner for the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, division chief for Climate Assessment and Services, and program manager for the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Parris was the lead author on the report “Global Mean Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the US National Climate Assessment.”
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prospects for Resilience
Book Subtitle: Insights from New York City's Jamaica Bay
Editors: Eric W. Sanderson, William D. Solecki, John R. Waldman, Adam S. Parris
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-734-6
Publisher: Island Press Washington, DC
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Eric W. Sanderson, William D. Solecki, John R. Waldman, and Adam S. Parris 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-61091-734-6Published: 08 April 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 286
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Environment, general, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Sustainable Architecture/Green Buildings