From rhetoric to reality: Which resilience, why resilience, and whose resilience in spatial planning?

Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 934-950

  White, Iain ^a   O’Hare, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecology; Equilibrium; Policy; Resilience; Spatial planning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; POLICY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL PLANNING;

EID: 84923625995     PISSN: 0263774X     EISSN: 14723425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/c12117     Document Type: Article

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