The capability of places methods for modelling community response to intrusion and change

Wallman, Sandra. (Author). Bond, Virginia (Virginia Anne) (Added Author). Montouri, Maria Alessia. (Added Author). Vidali, Mai. (Added Author). Lo Conte, Rossella. (Added Author).

Summary: "How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to manage them. In this ... work, drawing on decades of research, Sandra Wallman explores how we can measure and compare the resilience of communities, looking in detail at neighbourhoods in London, Rome and Zambia. Each locale is examined as a system which is more or less open or closed; open systems tend to be more resilient when faced with external challenges. As well as being a fascinating study in its own right, the book includes detailed accounts of the research methods used, as well as a user-friendly typology for classifying local systems, making it an invaluable tool for students, researchers and policy-makers."--Publisher's website.

Record details

ISBN: 9781849646178 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1849646171 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780745331454
ISBN: 0745331459
ISBN: 9780745331461
ISBN: 0745331467
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xi, 172 p.) : ill., maps.
Publisher: London : Pluto Press ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan [exclusive U.S.A. distributor], 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-167) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Themes and a model -- London, ethnicity or localism? -- Rome, migrants and migration -- Zambia, terrains and tuberculosis -- Three sets of methods, one methodology -- Towards typology.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.