Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency.\ "Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as...
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Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency."Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change, and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability. It explains why greater efficiency by itself cannot solve resource problems and offers a constructive alternative that opens up options rather than closing them down.In Resilience Thinking, scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to the emerging paradigm of resilience. The book arose out of appeals from colleagues in science and industry for a plainly written account of what resilience is all about and how a resilience approach differs from current practices. Rather than complicated theory, the book offers a conceptual overview along with five case studies of resilience thinking in the real world. It is an engaging and important work for anyone interested in managing risk in a complex world. Planning Magazine "This is one of those books that barely mentions planning as such, but has lots of implications for it. It''s short but will repay some extra quiet time...Their goal is to get us to look at the world and its systems in a fresh new way."
1Living in a complex world : an introduciton to resilience thinking1Case study 1 : carving up a national icon : the Florida Everglades152The system rules : creating a mind space for resilience thinking28Case study 2 : between a (salt) rock and a hard place : the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia393Crossing the threshold : be careful about the path you choose - you may not be able to return53Case study 3 : losing the jewel in the crown : the coral reefs in the Caribbean644In the loop : phases, cycles, and scales - adaptive cycles and how systems change74Case study 4 : scenarios on the lakes : the Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin965Making sense of resilience : how do you apply resilience thinking?111Case study 5 : building resilience in the wetlands : the Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden1256Creating space in a shrinking world : resilience and sustainability139Postscript for a resilient world153
\ Planning MagazineThis is one of those books that barely mentions planning as such, but has lots of implications for it. It's short but will repay some extra quiet time...Their goal is to get us to look at the world and its systems in a fresh new way."\ \ \ \ \
