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Incremental Change, Transition or Transformation? Optimising Change Pathways for Climate Adaptation in Spatial Planning
Roggema, Rob; Vermeend, Tim; Dobbelsteen, Andy van den - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 10, pp. 2525-2549
In order to incorporate climate adaptation in spatial planning change is required, because climate change impacts the way we live. This implies that spatial planning, as the arranger of the spatial organisation and layout needs to be able to support this change. Current spatial planning is not...
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General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events
Carpenter, Stephen R.; Arrow, Kenneth J.; Barrett, Scott; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 12, pp. 3248-3259
Resilience to specified kinds of disasters is an active area of research and practice. However, rare or unprecedented … disturbances that are unusually intense or extensive require a more broad-spectrum type of resilience. General resilience is the …. Conditions that enable general resilience include diversity, modularity, openness, reserves, feedbacks, nestedness, monitoring …
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