Living with Climate Change: How Communities Are Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate

ISBN-13: 9781138415942 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Jane A. Bullock

Opis

The author‘s previous book, Transition to 21st Century Healthcare: A Guide for Leaders and Quality Professionals, provides a high-level view of American healthcare as transitioning through a period of industrialization, breaking down the fading structures of 20th century healthcare, and paving the way for 21st century healthcare.Mapping the Path to 21st Century Healthcare: The Ten Transitions Workbook offers a review of the fundamentals of the transitional structure presented in the first book, but shifts its focus from concepts to practical application, beginning with an industrialization evaluation that serves as preparation for the transitions. This workbook provides a detailed guide to the development and use of the ten transitions that are critically important in assessing your organization's progress in moving towards the 21st century healthcare model.Divided into four sections, the book progresses from establishing a basis for the ten transitions to providing a deeper analysis of each transition. Section I introduces the concepts that underlie the structure and methodology of the book. Section II offers a historical overview of American healthcare that highlights the fundamental distinctions between 20th century and 21st century healthcare. Section III focuses on the vital role that industrialization plays in revealing the transitions from 20th century and 21st century healthcare. Section IV presents the structure of each transition. It describes the groups of transitions as well as the categories and characteristics that form the transitions. Section V offers an in-depth look at each of the 10 transitions and explains how they provide an understanding of the movement of healthcare from the 20th century to the 21st century. The book concludes with an explanation of the value of the generative or guiding and motivating metaphors in the transitions formed through the contrast between the 20th cen

Recenzje

"This book begins by recognizing that adaptation to climate change is unavoidable. Since 1992, more than 6,000 major disasters related to climate, weather, and water have occurred globally, and annual occurrences have doubled since 2004.  The authors and 17 other experts review efforts by US communities to deal with hazards like rising sea level, floods, drought and water shortages, fires, earthquakes, and extreme weather events.  The book includes detailed practical and theoretical information on US and a few foreign communities that have successfully adapted to hazards." - CHOICE, F. T. Manheim, George Mason University

Spis treści

Learning to Survive and Thrive in a Changed Climate. Community Risk Implications. The Stages of Adaptive Planning. The Role of Local, State, and Federal Governments in Climate Change Adaptation. The Elements of a Successful Adaptation Plan/Obstacles and Constraints. Case Studies in Long-Term Disaster Risk Reduction. Case Studies in Climate Change Adaptation. International Case Studies in Climate Change Adaptation. Conclusions and Recommendations.

O autorze

Jane A. Bullock, George D. Haddow, Kim S. Haddow, Damon P. Coppola