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Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender Flutrisiken erörtert Oskar Marg anhand von Interviews mit Betroffenen die Frage, was die Resilienz von Haushalten gegenüber Hochwasser – verstanden als Widerstands-, Bewältigungs- und Anpassungsfähigkeit – fördert und was sie schwächt. Der Autor zeigt, dass es gerade in strukturschwachen Regionen auch (und teilweise eher) nicht ‚klassisch‘ vulnerable Gruppen wie Unternehmer oder Hauseigentümer sind, denen es an Resilienz mangelt. Die Hochwasserresilienz von Haushalten mit ihren zentralen Elementen (Schadenserfahrung durch Hochwasser sowie individuelle, staatliche und zivilgesellschaftliche Faktoren der Hochwasservorsorge und -bewältigung) muss zudem als Ganzes betrachtet werden, um die teilweise paradoxen Nebenwirkungen der Elemente aufeinander berücksichtigen zu können. Der Inhalt Der Ablauf eines extremen Hochwassers aus Sicht betroffener Haushalte Ausführliche exemplarische Biografie einer betroffenen Unternehmerin Resilienz als theoretisches Analysekonzept – Anwendung und kritische Reflexion Die Zielgruppen Dozierende und Studierende aus den Bereichen Katastrophen-, Umwelt- und Stadtsoziologie sowie der qualitativen Sozialforschung Praktiker im Bereich Kommunen und Länder, in Hilfsorganisationen und Hochwasserexperten Der Autor Oskar Marg arbeitet als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter bei der Katastrophenforschungsstelle an der Freien Universität Berlin.

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This book explores how complexity science and social simulation can be used to improve and inform policy-making in both research and innovation. Beginning with an introduction to conceptual definitions of complexity science and social simulation, the book demonstrates the validity of the underlying integrated research framework used throughout. It is then divided into two parts, with the first investigating the effects and impacts of policy making on the structure, composition and outputs of research and innovation networks using the agent-based SKIN platform (Simulating Knowledge Dynamics in Innovation Networks, http://cress.soc.surrey.ac.uk/SKIN/). The second half of the book discusses a research initiative funded by the Irish government focusing on innovation policy simulation for economic recovery. This consists of empirical research on Irish research and innovation networks, and SKIN-based simulations of technology transfer issues and the commercialization of research in areas with high potential for innovation and economic growth. The book concludes with reflections on the maturity and utility of an approach combining complexity science and social simulation for research and innovation policy. Joining Complexity Science and Social Simulation for Innovation Policy will be of particular interest to scientists concerned with innovation and complex systems, including economists, sociologists, and complexity researchers, as well as students and practitioners, such as innovation policymakers and innovation business managers.

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"Challenging the Dichotomy" explores how dichotomies regarding heritage dominate the discourse of ethics, practices, and institutions. Examining issues of cultural heritage law, policy, and implementation, editors Les Field, Cristóbal Gnecco, and Joe Watkins guide the focus to important discussions of the binary oppositions of the licit and the illicit, the scientific and the unscientific, incorporating case studies that challenge those apparent contradictions. Utilizing both ethnographic and archaeological examples, contributors ask big questions vital to anyone working in cultural heritage. What are the issues surrounding private versus museum collections? What is considered looting? Is archaeology still a form of colonialization? The contributors discuss this vis-à-vis a global variety of contexts and cultures from the United States, South Africa, Argentina, New Zealand, Honduras, Colombia, Palestine, Greece, Canada, and from the Nasa, Choctaw, and Maori nations. "Challenging the Dichotomy" underscores how dichotomies-such as licit/illicit, state/nonstate, public/private, scientific/nonscientific-have been constructed and how they are now being challenged by multiple forces. Throughout the eleven chapters, contributors provide examples of hegemonic relationships of power between nations and institutions. Scholars also reflect on exchanges between Western and non-Western epistemologies and ontologies. The book's contributions are significant, timely, and inclusive. "Challenging the Dichotomy" examines the scale and scope of "illicit" forms of excavation, as well as the demands from minority and indigenous subaltern peoples to decolonize anthropological and archaeological research.

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How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future? How do people who have survived the ravages of war and displacement rebuild their lives in a new country when their world has totally changed? In Making Refuge Catherine Besteman follows the trajectory of Somali Bantus from their homes in Somalia before the onset in 1991 of Somalia's civil war, to their displacement to Kenyan refugee camps, to their relocation in cities across the United States, to their settlement in the struggling former mill town of Lewiston, Maine. Tracking their experiences as "secondary migrants" who grapple with the struggles of xenophobia, neoliberalism, and grief, Besteman asks what humanitarianism feels like to those who are its objects and what happens when refugees move in next door. As Lewiston's refugees and locals negotiate co-residence and find that assimilation goes both ways, their story demonstrates the efforts of diverse people to find ways to live together and create community. Besteman's account illuminates the contemporary debates about economic and moral responsibility, security, and community that immigration provokes.This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

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