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The Community Resilience Reader

Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval

Editors:

  1. Daniel Lerch

    1. Post Carbon Institute, Santa Rosa, USA

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  • Features essays by leaders and visionaries in a variety of fields, from environmental science and policy to community building and urban design
  • Presents solutions to resilience crises at the community level in an era of partisan national politics
  • Provides an overview of community resiilience theory and practice for college students and community leaders

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Daniel Lerch
    Pages 1-8

  5. Gathering the Needed Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. Systems Literacy: A Toolkit for Purposeful Change

      • Howard Silverman
      Pages 131-145

    3. A Crash Course in the Science of Sustainability

      • Margaret Robertson
      Pages 147-161

    4. A Crash Course in the Science of Resilience

      • Brian Walker, David Salt
      Pages 163-178

  6. Community Resilience in Action

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Energy Democracy

      • Denise Fairchild, Al Weinrub
      Pages 195-206

    4. Food System Lessons from Vermont

      • Scott Sawyer
      Pages 227-245

    5. Learning Our Way toward Resilience

      • William Throop
      Pages 247-260
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About this book

This volume offers a new vision for creating resilience, through essays by leaders in such varied fields as science, policy, community building, and urban design. It combines a fresh look at the challenges humanity faces in the 21st century, the essential tools of resilience science, and the wisdom of activists, scholars, and analysts working with community issues on the ground. It shows that resilience is a process, not a goal; how resilience requires learning to adapt but also preparing to transform; and that resilience starts and ends with the people living in a community. Despite the formidable challenges we face, this book shows that building strength and resilience at the community level is not only crucial, but possible.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Post Carbon Institute, Santa Rosa, USA

    Daniel Lerch

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About the editor

Daniel Lerch is Publications Director of Post Carbon Institute, serving as lead editor and manager of the Institute’s books and reports. He is the author of Post Carbon Cities: Planning for Energy and Climate Uncertainty (2007)—the first major local government guidebook on the end of cheap oil—and was the founding chair of the Sustainable Communities Division of the American Planning Association and a founding co-director of The City Repair Project. Lerch has delivered over 100 presentations to audiences across the United States and abroad, and has been interviewed for numerous media outlets. He has worked with urban sustainability issues for over twenty years in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
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