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Resilient Futures

System Dynamics, Tech Innovations, and Climate Resilience

  • 1st Edition - October 3, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Hassan Qudrat-Ullah
  • Language: English

Resilient Futures: System Dynamics, Tech Innovations, and Climate Resilience is a comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing environmental challenges. The book integr… Read more

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Description

Resilient Futures: System Dynamics, Tech Innovations, and Climate Resilience is a comprehensive guide to understanding and addressing environmental challenges. The book integrates system dynamics, highlights innovative technologies, and provides actionable strategies for climate resilience and sustainable practices. It equips readers with the knowledge to effectively navigate complexity, uncertainty, and environmental risks. By synthesizing research, case studies, and practical insights, this comprehensive resource provides a roadmap for building resilient systems and shaping a sustainable future.

Key features

  • Provides a comprehensive, yet practical understanding of system dynamics through real-world case studies
  • Highlights the transformative potential of AI, IoT, and blockchain in fostering climate resilience and sustainability
  • Emphasizes actionable strategies for building resilience at individual, community, and global levels using evidence-based recommendations

Readership

Researchers, environmental practitioners, educators, students, and technology innovators interested in climate resilience and sustainable development

Table of contents

1. Introduction- A Journey Toward Resilient Future

2. System Dynamics in a Changing World

3. Innovations in Technology and Climate Resilience

4. Climate Resilience: Challenges and Strategies

5. Assessing Impacts of Climate Extremes

6. Urban Climate Resilience

7. Resilience Calculation and Climate Change Effects

8. Conceptual Model for Resilience to Climate Events

9. Natural Resource Management

10. Case Studies in Resilient Futures

11. The Role of Policy and Governance

12. Future Prospects and Challenges for Climate Resilience

13. Conclusion and a Way Forward

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 3, 2024
  • Language: English

About the author

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Hassan Qudrat-Ullah

Hassan Qudrat-Ullah is a full professor of decision sciences at the School of Administrative Studies, York University, Canada. Dr. Qudrat-Ullah has more than 20 years of teaching, research, industry, and consulting experience in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Norway, United Kingdom, Korea, China, Saudi Arabia, Latvia, Switzerland, Spain, and Pakistan. His research interests include dynamic decision-making, interactive learning environments, system dynamics, and energy policies. His research has appeared in Decision Support Systems, Simulations & Gaming, Journal of Decision Systems, Telecommunication Systems, Sustainability, Energy Policy, Energy, Energies, International Journal of Technology Management, and Computers & Education. He has also published 20 books (including edited volumes), 43 journal articles, and numerous conference proceedings and presentations. He was awarded Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research (York University) in 2017.
Affiliations and expertise
Full professor of Decision Sciences, the School of Administrative Studies, York University, Canada

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