Resilience and Transformation
Preparing Australia for Uncertain Futures
1st Edition
Published on 13. August 2010
222 pages
978-0-643-09813-8 (ISBN)
Description
Resilience and Transformation explores what factors contribute to Australia's resilience, what trends are apparent, and what actions are required to better prepare us for the immediate and longer term future. Resilience is a word used more and more across societies worldwide as decision makers realise that predicting and controlling the future does not work and that preparing for uncertainty and surprise is vital. Many viewpoints have emerged on how to assess and achieve resilience of individuals, organisations, communities and ecosystems, but rarely has the resilience of a nation been considered. As Australia moves into a millennium that promises major economic, social, technological and environmental change, Australia21 has assembled some of Australia's leading thinkers to give their perspectives on the extent and direction of resilience across our nation's social, economic, ecological and disaster management systems.
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Overview
- Chapter 1 Introduction and synthesis of key themes
- Chapter 2 Policy implications
- Organisations and Economies
- Chapter 3 Organising to deliver resilience
- Chapter 4 Managing for resilience
- Chapter 5 Boiling frogs, black swans and the Lucky Country - how resilient is our economy and how could we improve its resilience?
- Governance and Security
- Chapter 6 Governance for a surprising world
- Chapter 7 Security, prosperity and resilience
- Chapter 8 Resilience and global financial governance
- Energy and Settlements
- Chapter 9 Peak oil - catalyst for a resilient, sustainable society
- Chapter 10 Resilient cities
- Health and Education
- Chapter 11 Why are some people more resilient to health problems than others?
- Chapter 12 Reforming Australia's early childhood development systems - the role of resilience theory
- Chapter 13 Population health - a forgotten dimension of social resilience
- Chapter 14 Education - revolution or resilience
- Environment and Society
- Chapter 15 Resilience of social-ecological systems
- Chapter 16 Climate change - a resilience perspective
- Chapter 17 Resilience to global change
- Disaster Preparedness and Recovery
- Chapter 18 Biosecurity - preparing for the unexpected
- Chapter 19 Pandemic preparedness and resilience
- Chapter 20 The role of communication in supporting resilient communities
- Chapter 21 Beyond resilience in the face of disaster - transforming adversity by transforming ourselves and our systems
- Index
