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Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development

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Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development book

What About the People?

Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development

DOI link for Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development

Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development book

What About the People?
ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2018
eBook Published 15 May 2018
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351103329
Pages 198 pages
eBook ISBN 9781351103329
SubjectsBuilt Environment, Environment and Sustainability
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Baldwin, C., King, R. (2018). Social Sustainability, Climate Resilience and Community-Based Urban Development. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351103329

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|7 pages

Context and rationale

ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King

chapter 2|6 pages

Spirit and methodology

ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King

chapter 3|15 pages

Social sustainability in routine daily life

ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King

chapter 4|12 pages

Social sustainability and urban development

ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King

chapter 5|11 pages

Community resilience and environmental adversities

ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King

chapter 6|7 pages

Creating built environments that influence pro-community behaviours

ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King

chapter 7|33 pages

Built environments that influence socially sustainable behaviours

ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King

chapter 8|40 pages

Socially sustainable communities can also be resilient communities

ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King

chapter 9|8 pages

Findings and conclusion

ByCathy Baldwin, Robin King

chapter 10|15 pages

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Planning and designing for the socially sustainable, resilient community
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