Rebuilding for Resilience: A Barrier Island Case

The Bolivar Peninsula, U.S.A.
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-65531-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Recurring extreme events of nature challenge disaster-prone settlements in complex ways. Devastating property damages are one of the tests of survival for such settlements in both economic and social terms. It also provides unique opportunities to rethink the environment cleared by massive natural disasters. However, rebuilding for long-term resiliency is one of the least investigated areas, particularly when employing tacit knowledge in the sustainable recovery process.  
This book builds a discursive field around the post-disaster rebuilding of Bolivar Peninsula aftermath Hurricane Ike to demonstrate reciprocity between disaster absorptive ecological formations such as barrier islands and their exploitative human occupation.   In the process, it investigates the nexus between connectivity among open space networks to various levels of surge damage among Bolivar spontaneous settlements. Beyond scientific analyses, the Hurricane Ike study triangulates syntactical methods with structured observations and statistical analyses to offer a holistic reporting model for emerging scholars and independent investigators, which one may find quite absent in the mainstream disaster studies and journalism.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Subasinghe, Chamila

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: disasters in the divided.- Global to glocal.- Sustainability-resiliency status quo.- A tensegrity model.- Connectivity: gaps and overlaps.- Rebuilding rhetoric aka significance.