Community resilience and environmental transitions

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Front Cover; Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures, tables and boxes; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Resilience, transition theory, and economic, social and environmental capital; 1.2 Aim of the book: understanding environmental and societal transitions at community level; 1.3 Community resilience and anthropogenic and natural disturbances; 1.4 Structure of the book; 2. Towards a framework for understanding community resilience; 2.1 Introduction

2.2 Conceptualizing community resilience at the intersection between economic, social and environmental capital2.3 Characteristics of resilient communities; 2.4 Community resilience and 'open' and 'closed' systems: geographical and socio-cultural boundaries of communities; 2.5 How can we measure the resilience of communities? Some methodological considerations; 2.6 Conclusions; 3. Transition theory: pathways of change and resilient communities; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Transition theory and community pathways

3.3 Environmental transitions at community level: from subsistence communities to relocalized pathways3.4 Conclusions; 4. Social memory: community learning, tradition, stakeholder networks and community resilience; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Social memory at local community level; 4.3 Social memory and community resilience; 4.4 Conclusions; 5. Path dependency: 'lock-in' mechanisms, power structures and pathways of the (im)possible at community level; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Understanding path dependency at community level; 5.3 Lock-in effects at community level

5.4 Endogenous path dependency at community level: examples from the developed and developing world5.5 Path dependency and transitional ruptures at community level: pathways of the (im)possible?; 5.6 Conclusions; 6. Transitional corridors: macro-structural influences and community resilience; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Transitional corridors; 6.3 Lock-in effects and transitional corridors; 6.4 Macro-level ruptures and transitional corridors; 6.5 Conclusions; 7. Community resilience and the policy challenge; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Transitional corridors and policy

7.3 Transitional corridors and policy challenges7.4 Policies for community resilience as a win-win situation or zero-sum game?; 7.5 Managing global resilience transitions; 7.6 Conclusions; 8. Conclusions; 8.1 Theoretical and conceptual considerations; 8.2 Opportunities for future research on community resilience; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

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