Vulnerability, Risks, and Complexity: Impacts of Global Change on Human Habitats (Advances in People-Environment Studies, Band 3) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 088937435X ISBN 13: 9780889374355

Verlag: Hogrefe Publishing, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

This volume offers state-of-the-art research on the interrelations between the social, built, and natural environments. It will be useful to scholars in cross-cutting areas of urban, hazard, planning, governance, and sustainability research in relation to socio-psychological perspectives. Readers will benefit from new theoretical as well as empirically based research findings in the emerging field of social-science vulnerability studies. • The contributions in this volume cover six broad research fields: • Reflections on vulnerability and risks in complex environments • Coping with climate change and natural hazards • Social dimensions of vulnerability and risks • Participation and strategies of risk reduction • Strengthening pro-environmental behavior • Place making and urban design The volume includes papers investigating human habitats within a variety of settlement structures and settings that are negatively affected by extreme weather events, natural hazards, infectious diseases, contaminations, or crime; as well as empirical case studies describing ways to strengthen environmentally sound behavior and how people behave in specific conditions, e.g., in post-disaster settlements. The focus of the book is on the necessity of studying vulnerability, risks, and complexity as expressions of the impact that global change has on human habitats. These include not only climate and hazard impacts but also new socio-demographic trends and regional economic developments that influence people’s quality of life and their capacities to cope with global change.

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Sigrun Kabisch, Prof. Dr., head of the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig (Germany), professor for Urban Geography at the University of Leipzig. Anna Kunath, research assistant at the Department of Urban and Environmental Sociology at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig (Germany). Petra Schweizer-Ries, Prof. Dr., junior professor in Environmental Psychology at the University of Magdeburg (Germany), professor in Environmental Psychology at the Saarland University, and professor in Sustainability Science at the University of Applied Science, Bochum (Germany). Annett Steinfuhrer, Dr., researcher at the Institute of Rural Studies at the Johann Heinrich von Thunen Institute (vTI), Braunschweig/Brunswick (Germany).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Hogrefe Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 088937435X
• ISBN 13: 9780889374355
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
• Herausgeber: Kabisch Sigrun, Kunath Anna K., Schweizer-Ries Petra, Steinführer Annett
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Hogrefe Publishing GmbH; customerservice@hogrefe.com; ; Merkelstraße 3; Göttingen; 37085; Deutschland