Addressing Climate Change at the Community Level in the United States - Community Development Research and Practice Series

The concept of community, in all its diverse definitions and manifestations, provides a unique approach to learn more about how groups of individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change. This new volume highlights specific cases of communities developing innovative approaches to climate mitigation and adaptation around the United States. Defining community more comprehensively than just spatial geography to include also communities of interest, identity and practice, this book highlights how individuals and organizations are addressing the challenges posed by climate change through more resilient social processes, government policies and sustainable practices. Through close examinations of community efforts across the United States, including agricultural stakeholder engagement and permaculture projects, coastal communities and prolonged drought areas, and university extension and local governments, this book shows the influence of building individual and institutional capacity toward addressing climate change issues at the community level. It will be useful to community development students, scholars and practitioners learning to respond to unexpected shocks and address chronic stress associated with climate change and its impacts.

ISBN:	9780815380924
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Published date:	20 Dec 2018
DEWEY:	363.73874525
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	292
Weight:	474g
Height:	158mm
Width:	232mm
Spine width:	17mm

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