Resilience assessment: A useful approach to navigate urban sustainability challenges

Ecology and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Sellberg, My M ^a   Wilkinson, Cathy ^a   Peterson, Garry D ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Eskilstuna; Local government planning; Participatory processes; Resilience assessment; Sustainable development; Sweden; Transdisciplinary research; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CRISIS MANAGEMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PLANNING METHOD; PLANNING PRACTICE; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN AREA;

ESKILSTUNA; SWEDEN;

EID: 84929337378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-07258-200143     Document Type: Article

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