Resilience Thinking Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

Name: Resilience Thinking Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
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ISBN: 9781597260930

ISBN-10: 1597260932

ISBN-13: 9781597260930

Edition: 2006

Authors: Brian Walker, David Salt, Walter Reid

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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…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 8/22/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



Living in a Complex World: An Introduction to Resilience Thinking



Carving up a National Icon: The Florida Everglades



The System Rules: Creating a Mind Space for Resilience Thinking



Between a (Salt) Rock and a Hard Place: The Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia



Crossing the Threshold: Be Careful about the Path you Choose-You May Not Be Able to Return



Losing the Jewel in the Crown: The Coral Reefs of the Caribbean



In the Loop: Phases, Cycles, and Scales-Adaptive Cycles and How Systems Change



Scenarios on the Lakes: The Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin



Making Sense of Resilience: How Do You Apply Resilience Thinking?



Building Resilience in the Wetlands: The Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden



Creating Space in a Shrinking World: Resilience and Sustainability


Afterword Further


Reading References


Glossary


About the Authors


Index