Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience

Biblical and Theological Visions of Resilience
Author: Christopher C. H. Cook
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0429671350

In recent years, resilience has become a near ubiquitous cultural phenomenon whose influence extends into many fields of academic enquiry. Though research suggests that religion and spirituality are significant factors in engendering resilient adaptation, comparatively little biblical and theological reflection has gone into understanding this construct. This book seeks to remedy this deficiency through a breadth of reflection upon human resilience from canonical biblical and Christian theological sources. Divided into three parts, biblical scholars and theologians provide critical accounts of these perspectives, integrating biblical and theological insight with current social scientific understandings of resilience. Part 1 presents a range of biblical visions of resilience. Part 2 considers a variety of theological perspectives on resilience, drawing from figures including Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Part 3 explores the clinical and pastoral applications of such expressions of resilience. This diverse yet cohesive book sets out a new and challenging perspective of how human resilience might be re-envisioned from a Christian perspective. As a result, it will be of interest to scholars of practical and pastoral theology, biblical studies, and religion, spirituality and health. It will also be a valuable resource for chaplains, pastors, and clinicians with an interest in religion and spirituality.

Resilient Urban Futures

Resilient Urban Futures
Author: Zoé A. Hamstead
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2021-04-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030631311

This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for more resilient futures, earnest collaboration across disciplines, and radical reconfigurations of the power regimes that have institutionalized the disenfranchisement of minority groups. Although planning processes consider visions for the future, the editors highlight a more ambitious long-term positive visioning approach that accounts for unpredictability, system dynamics and equity in decision-making. This volume brings the science of urban transformation together with practices of professionals who govern and manage our social, ecological and technological systems to design processes by which cities may achieve resilient urban futures in the face of climate change.

Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience

Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309256143

Although advances in engineering can reduce the risk of dam and levee failure, some failures will still occur. Such events cause impacts on social and physical infrastructure that extend far beyond the flood zone. Broadening dam and levee safety programs to consider community- and regional-level priorities in decision making can help reduce the risk of, and increase community resilience to, potential dam and levee failures. Collaboration between dam and levee safety professionals at all levels, persons and property owners at direct risk, members of the wider economy, and the social and environmental networks in a community would allow all stakeholders to understand risks, shared needs, and opportunities, and make more informed decisions related to dam and levee infrastructure and community resilience. Dam and Levee Safety and Community Resilience: A Vision for Future Practice explains that fundamental shifts in safety culture will be necessary to integrate the concepts of resilience into dam and levee safety programs.

Resilience for All

Resilience for All
Author: Barbara Brown Wilson
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-05-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1610918924

In the United States, people of color are disproportionally more likely to live in environments with poor air quality, in close proximity to toxic waste, and in locations more vulnerable to climate change and extreme weather events. In many vulnerable neighborhoods, structural racism and classism prevent residents from having a seat at the table when decisions are made about their community. In an effort to overcome power imbalances and ensure local knowledge informs decision-making, a new approach to community engagement is essential. In Resilience for All, Barbara Brown Wilson looks at less conventional, but often more effective methods to make communities more resilient. She takes an in-depth look at what equitable, positive change through community-driven design looks like in four communities—East Biloxi, Mississippi; the Lower East Side of Manhattan; the Denby neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan; and the Cully neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. These vulnerable communities have prevailed in spite of serious urban stressors such as climate change, gentrification, and disinvestment. Wilson looks at how the lessons in the case studies and other examples might more broadly inform future practice. She shows how community-driven design projects in underserved neighborhoods can not only change the built world, but also provide opportunities for residents to build their own capacities.

To Know the World

To Know the World
Author: Mitchell Thomashow
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2020-11-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0262539829

Why environmental learning is crucial for understanding the connected challenges of climate justice, tribalism, inequity, democracy, and human flourishing. How can we respond to the current planetary ecological emergency? In To Know the World, Mitchell Thomashow proposes that we revitalize, revisit, and reinvigorate how we think about our residency on Earth. First, we must understand that the major challenges of our time—migration, race, inequity, climate justice, and democracy—connect to the biosphere. Traditional environmental education has accomplished much, but it has not been able to stem the inexorable decline of global ecosystems. Thomashow, the former president of a college dedicated to sustainability, describes instead environmental learning, a term signifying that our relationship to the biosphere must be front and center in all aspects of our daily lives. In this illuminating book, he provides rationales, narratives, and approaches for doing just that. Mixing memoir, theory, mindfulness, pedagogy, and compelling storytelling, Thomashow discusses how to navigate the Anthropocene's rapid pace of change without further separating psyche from biosphere; why we should understand migration both ecologically and culturally; how to achieve constructive connectivity in both social and ecological networks; and why we should take a cosmopolitan bioregionalism perspective that unites local and global. Throughout, Thomashow invites readers to participate as educational explorers, encouraging them to better understand how and why environmental learning is crucial to human flourishing.

Strengths-Based Resilience

Strengths-Based Resilience
Author: Tayyab Rashid
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2024-06-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 161676564X

Help your clients and students use their strengths to build resilience Evidence-based Strengths-based Skills that clients can integrate into daily life Clearly structured modules More about the book In a world full of stress and uncertainty, educators and clinicians are pivotal in fostering resilience—the capacity to thrive amid life's challenges. Strengths-Based Resilience: A Practitioner's Manual for the SBR Program offers more than mere knowledge; it is a practical guide for embarking on a transformative journey. This book empowers readers to teach resilience skills that help people grow and flourish. Integrating scientific insights with the art of applied practice, this manual draws from the trio of positive psychology, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and mindfulness. With 14 carefully designed modules, facilitators can translate theoretical principles into actionable steps that help participants navigate life's obstacles with agility and cultivate an approach to life that harnesses and honors their personal strengths. The SBR program helps to realize a future where resentment gives way to appreciation, connections are strengthened through positive interactions, and families and communities collaborate for the collective good. This color-illustrated manual is an essential resource for mental health practitioners and educators aiming to help craft a more resilient world for tomorrow. A separate companion workbook is available for clients. A separate companion workbook is available for clients.

Planning for Coastal Resilience

Planning for Coastal Resilience
Author: Timothy Beatley
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012-06-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1610911423

Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and magnitude of coastal storms around the globe, and the anticipated rise of sea levels will have enormous impact on fragile and vulnerable coastal regions. In the U.S., more than 50% of the population inhabits coastal areas. In Planning for Coastal Resilience, Tim Beatley argues that, in the face of such threats, all future coastal planning and management must reflect a commitment to the concept of resilience. In this timely book, he writes that coastal resilience must become the primary design and planning principle to guide all future development and all future infrastructure decisions. Resilience, Beatley explains, is a profoundly new way of viewing coastal infrastructure—an approach that values smaller, decentralized kinds of energy, water, and transport more suited to the serious physical conditions coastal communities will likely face. Implicit in the notion is an emphasis on taking steps to build adaptive capacity, to be ready ahead of a crisis or disaster. It is anticipatory, conscious, and intentional in its outlook. After defining and explaining coastal resilience, Beatley focuses on what it means in practice. Resilience goes beyond reactive steps to prevent or handle a disaster. It takes a holistic approach to what makes a community resilient, including such factors as social capital and sense of place. Beatley provides case studies of five U.S. coastal communities, and “resilience profiles” of six North American communities, to suggest best practices and to propose guidelines for increasing resilience in threatened communities.

Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry

Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry
Author: Joan McArthur-Blair
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1523082569

The ability to be resilient--to pick oneself up after setbacks and keep on going no matter the challenges--is critical not only to successful leadership but also to fostering teams, generating collaboration, and igniting the organization. In this book, the authors show that Appreciative Inquiry canbe an invaluable tool to build that resilience.

A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS

A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS
Author: Graeme B. Dinwoodie
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-05-31
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0195304616

The TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights), introduced intellectual property protection into the World Trade Organization's multilateral trading system for the first time. This book examines its interpretation, its impact on the creative environment, and much more.

The Resilience Way

The Resilience Way
Author: Kelly Ann McKnight
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2019-08-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781686306310

The Resilience Way is a book for people who want to overcome their struggles and challenges and build the life they truly desire. In this approachable and engaging book, author Kelly Ann McKnight unwraps the keys to building resilience. She shares the Five Elements of Resilience and Fifteen Factors that you need to consider in order to be ready for anything. Learn how to: - Recognize the things that are getting in your way - Build skills that will help you handle your struggles - Create an action plan for moving forward... with Resilience! By the time you finish The Resilience Way you will be ready to take on those unexpected challenges and find the success you want in your life... on your own terms. Kelly Ann McKnight is an author, consultant and resilience researcher. She has spent the last twenty years coaching and developing people and helping them follow their dreams. Kelly Ann's journey includes a life of challenge and success. She lost her husband to colon cancer at the age of forty-five and was left with four children to raise. Her experience of love, loss and renewal sparked her passion for understanding resilience. Why, for instance, do some people thrive after dealing with the unimaginable while others struggle with much smaller challenges. What can each of us do to better manage our difficulties and create an extraordinary life? The Resilience Way follows the motivational stories of more than twenty people, overcoming their own difficulties and finding happiness. The Resilience Way contains a self-assessment that measures current levels of resilience and provides a path to improved wellness, clarity, health and happiness. This is the self-help book that truly empowers readers to achieve success... on their own terms.