Building Resilient Regions
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Beschreibung
This book focuses on building regional resilience by comprehensively improving regional assets. Regional vulnerability depends on the availability of regional assets for the population, as well as the population’s ability to access those assets. Such assets include the environment, population size, community, and human capital, as well as traditional physical infrastructure. Identifying and improving these regional assets, which provide resource flows to help cope with regional disruptions—natural disasters, economic crises, or demographic changes— serves to mitigate vulnerability and build resiliency.
The book pursues an interdisciplinary approach to investigating regional resilience, bringing together welfare and environmental economics, public administration, risk and disaster management, policy studies, development studies, and landscape architecture. Up-to-date case studies are provided, including recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in Japan, regional development for depopulation areas, and urban policy for smart cities. These studies reflect and share the latest findings on key issues, policymaking and implementation processes, and implications for evaluation methodologies—all of which are indispensable to the building of resilient regions.
This book is highly recommended for researchers and practitioners seeking a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to regional and urban development. It provides a valuable reference guide to building resiliency and mitigating vulnerability, both of which are imperative to achieving sustainable regions.
Defines resilience from the point of view of regional assets in a broad sense and in relation to the concept of sustainability and vulnerability
Employs an interdisciplinary approach of economics, public administration, risk and disaster management, development studies, and landscape architecture
Provides up-to-date case studies as well as a framework of policy design and evaluation methodology for practical policy making to build resiliency
Defines resilience in terms of regional assets in a broad sense and in relation to the concepts of sustainability and vulnerability Pursues an interdisciplinary approach combining economics, public administration, risk and disaster management, development studies, and landscape architecture Provides up-to-date case studies as well as a framework of policy design and evaluation methodology for practical policymaking to build resiliency
Autor*in
Chisato Asahi
Themen in »Building Resilient Regions«
Resilience Vulnerability Regional Analysis Policy Design Evaluation Regional Environment Community