Prospects for Resilience: Insights from New York City's Jamaica Bay

by Adam S. Parris, William D. Solecki, John R. Waldman, et al.

Book Overview

Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and understanding how to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous future. How do physical conditions, ecological processes, social objectives, human politics, and history shape the prospects for resilience? Most books...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610917332
• ISBN13: 9781610917339
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.9"