Resilience Thinking

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Walker, Brian 저자(글)

Island Press · 2006년 08월 01일

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Brian Walker is past Chief of Australia's CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology and is currently the Program Director of the Resilience Alliance. He spent the first 30 years of his professional life studying how ecosystems function, and the last 10 studying the dynamics of linked social-ecological systems.
David Salt is a science writer and editor with 18 years experience writing and producing popular science magazines and newsletters for a wide range of audiences. He served as Communications Manager at CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology (while Brian Walker was Chief).
Brian Walker is a Research Fellow in Australia's CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Visiting Researcher in the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Chair of the Resilience Alliance. David Salt is a science and environment writer at the Australian National University, and has more than two decades experience writing and producing popular science magazines and books. Both authors live in Canberra, Australia.
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.
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.
"Resilience Thinkingis an essential guidebook to a powerful new way of understanding our worldand of living resiliently within itdeveloped in recent decades by an international team of ecologists. With five clear and compelling case studies drawn from regions as diverse as Florida, Sweden, and Australia, this book shows how all highly adaptive systemsfrom ecologies to economiesgo through regular cycles of growth, reorganization, and renewal and how our failures to understand the basic principles of resilience have often led to disaster.Resilience Thinkinggives us the conceptual tools to help us cope with the bewildering surprises and challenges of our new century."
" Resilience Thinkingis an essential guidebook to a powerful new way of understanding our world-and of living resiliently within it-developed in recent decades by an international team of ecologists. With five clear and compelling case studies drawn from regions as diverse as Florida, Sweden, and Australia, this book shows how all highly adaptive systems-from ecologies to economies-go through regular cycles of growth, reorganization, and renewal and how our failures to understand the basic principles of resilience have often led to disaster. Resilience Thinkinggives us the conceptual tools to help us cope with the bewildering surprises and challenges of our new century."
"Resilience Thinking is an essential guidebook to a powerful new way of understanding our world-and of living resiliently within it-developed in recent decades by an international team of ecologists. With five clear and compelling case studies drawn from regions as diverse as Florida, Sweden, and Australia, this book shows how all highly adaptive systems-from ecologies to economies-go through regular cycles of growth, reorganization, and renewal and how our failures to understand the basic principles of resilience have often led to disaster. Resilience Thinking gives us the conceptual tools to help us cope with the bewildering surprises and challenges of our new century."
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" Resilience Thinking is an impressive and highly successful effort to explain complex ecological and social interactions and changes in a unified framework and in language accessible to a wide audience. This book should stimulate extensive discussions on these critical issues and innovative ways to approach them."
"Resilience Thinking is an impressive and highly successful effort to explain complex ecological and social interactions and changes in a unified framework and in language accessible to a wide audience. This book should stimulate extensive discussions on these critical issues and innovative ways to approach them."
"Resilience Thinking is an impressive and highly successful effort to explain complex ecological and social interactions and changes in a unified framework and in language accessible to a wide audience. This book should stimulate extensive discussions on these critical issues and innovative ways to approach them." Harold Mooney, Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Stanford University
"Resilience Thinkingis an impressive and highly successful effort to explain complex ecological and social interactions and changes in a unified framework and in language accessible to a wide audience. This book should stimulate extensive discussions on these critical issues and innovative ways to approach them." -Harold Mooney, Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Stanford University
"Resilience Thinkingis an impressive and highly successful effort to explain complex ecological and social interactions and changes in a unified framework and in language accessible to a wide audience. This book should stimulate extensive discussions on these critical issues and innovative ways to approach them." Harold Mooney, Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Stanford University
""Resilience Thinking "is an impressive and highly successful effort to explain complex ecological and social interactions and changes in a unified framework and in language accessible to a wide audience. This book should stimulate extensive discussions on these critical issues and innovative ways to approach them." -Harold Mooney, Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Stanford University
" Resilience Thinkingprovides a much-needed accessible entree into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike."
"Resilience Thinkingprovides a much-needed accessible entree into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike."
"Resilience Thinking provides a much-needed accessible entree into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike." Jane Lubchenco, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
"Resilience Thinkingprovides a much-needed accessible entree into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike." Jane Lubchenco, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
" Resilience Thinking provides a much-needed accessible entr_e into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike."
"Resilience Thinking provides a much-needed accessible entr_e into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike."
"Resilience Thinking provides a much-needed accessible entr占쏙옙占? into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike."
"Resilience Thinking provides a much-needed accessible entr占? into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike."
""Resilience Thinking "provides a much-needed accessible entr'e into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike." -Jane Lubchenco, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
"Resilience Thinkingprovides a much-needed accessible entri'e into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike." -Jane Lubchenco, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
"Resilience Thinkingprovides a much-needed accessible entri'i'e into a concept that holds the key to our future.... Full of wisdom, sophisticated science, and practical guidance, this book provides profound ideas, insights, and hope to scientists, students, managers, and planners alike." -Jane Lubchenco, Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
"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."
"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."
"This is one of those books that barely mentions planning as such, but has lots of implications for it. It's short buy 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."
"This is one of those books that barely mentions planning as such, but has lots of implications for it. It's short buy 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."
Offers a new way of understanding the world and a new approach to managingresources. 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.
"Resilience thinking" offers a new 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. In Resilience Thinking, scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to this emerging paradigm.
"Resilience thinking" offers a new 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. In Resilience Thinking, scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to this emerging paradigm.
Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. Living in a Complex World: An Introduction to Resilience Thinking CASE STUDY 1 Carving up a National Icon: The Florida Everglades 2. The System Rules: Creating a Mind Space for Resilience Thinking CASE STUDY 2 Between a (Salt) Rock and a Hard Place: The Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia 3. Crossing the Threshold: Be Careful about the Path you Choose-You May Not Be Able to Return CASE STUDY 3 Losing the Jewel in the Crown: The Coral Reefs of the Caribbean 4. In the Loop: Phases, Cycles, and Scales-Adaptive Cycles and How Systems Change CASE STUDY 4 Scenarios on the Lakes: The Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin 5. Making Sense of Resilience: How Do You Apply Resilience Thinking? CASE STUDY 5 Building Resilience in the Wetlands: The Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden 6. Creating Space in a Shrinking World: Resilience and Sustainability Afterword Further Reading References Glossary About the Authors Index

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저자(글) Walker, Brian

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• 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
  Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

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ISBN	9781597260930 ( 1597260932 )
발행(출시)일자	2006년 08월 01일
쪽수	192쪽
크기	153 * 230 * 10 mm / 268 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어