| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 172 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series |
Anthropology, culture, and society.
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Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Summary |
"How can we assess the ability of a place to respond to challenges like migration, recession and disease? Places which seem similar can respond very differently, and with varying degrees of success, to external threats and to the interventions designed to manage them. In this ... work, drawing on decades of research, Sandra Wallman explores how we can measure and compare the resilience of communities, looking in detail at neighbourhoods in London, Rome and Zambia. Each locale is examined as a system which is more or less open or closed; open systems tend to be more resilient when faced with external challenges. As well as being a fascinating study in its own right, the book includes detailed accounts of the research methods used, as well as a user-friendly typology for classifying local systems, making it an invaluable tool for students, researchers and policy-makers."--Publisher's website. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167) and index. |
| Contents |
Themes and a model -- London, ethnicity or localism? -- Rome, migrants and migration -- Zambia, terrains and tuberculosis -- Three sets of methods, one methodology -- Towards typology. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Research.
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Communities -- Research.
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Community development.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bond, Virginia (Virginia Anne)
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Montouri, Maria Alessia.
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Vidali, Mai.
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Lo Conte, Rossella.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wallman, Sandra. Capability of places. London : Pluto Press ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan [exclusive U.S.A. distributor], 2011 9780745331454 (OCoLC)721884008 |
| ISBN |
9781849646178 electronic bk. |
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1849646171 electronic bk. |
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9780745331454 |
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0745331459 |
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9780745331461 |
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0745331467 |
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