Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development

What About the People?
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-45902-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability

Urban communities around the world face increased stress from natural disasters linked to climate change, and other urban pressures. They need to grow rapidly stronger in order to cope, adapt and flourish. Strong social networks and social cohesion can be more important for a community’s resilience than the actual physical structures of a city. But how can urban planning and design support these critical collective social strengths?

This book offers blue sky thinking from the applied social and behavioural sciences, and urban planning. It looks at case studies from 14 countries around the world – including India, the USA, South Africa, Indonesia, the UK and New Zealand – focusing on initiatives for housing, public space and transport stops, and also natural disasters such as flooding and earthquakes. Building on these insights, the authors propose a 'gold standard': a socially aware planning process and policy recommendation for those drawing up city sustainability and climate change resilience strategies, and urban developers looking to build climate-proof infrastructure and spaces.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban studies, resilience studies and climate change policy, as well as policymakers and practitioners working in related fields.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baldwin, Cathy

King, Robin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Glossary of terms and definitions

- Context and Rationale

- Spirit and Methodology

- Social Sustainability in Routine Daily Life

- Social Sustainability and Urban Development

- Community Resilience and Environmental Adversities

- Creating Built Environments that Influence Pro-Community Behaviours

- Built Environments that Influence Socially Sustainable Behaviours

- Socially Sustainable Communities can also be Resilient Communities

- Findings and Conclusion

10 Recommendations: Planning and Designing for the Socially Sustainable, Resilient Community

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.