Finding Resilience
Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society
1st Edition
Published on 1. March 2019
168 pages
978-1-4863-1078-4 (ISBN)
Description
Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience. But what does that mean? The word is used differently in psychology, ecology, economics and engineering and runs the risk of becoming meaningless jargon. This would be most unfortunate because, if we are to successfully navigate very real and dangerous global trends, it is resilience that needs to be understood and fostered.Finding Resilience is international in scope and unravels how ecosystems, societies and people cope with disturbance and adversity. An authoritative but plain English account which is based on the experiences of researchers, the fascinating stories from around the world reveal what resilience is, how it works in different kinds of systems, how it is expressed, and how it can be gained and lost.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I What's it all about?
- 1 Connections in a changing world
- Where are we heading?
- Connections with nature
- 2 Another pathway
- What is resilience?
- Part II Encountering resilience in nature
- 3 Living together in ecosystems
- Pyramids and webs
- Cascades, keystones and genes
- 4 Ecological choreography
- Choosing what to eat
- Choosing where to eat
- Fuzziness, chance and resilience
- 5 Disturbance, change and diversity
- The architects of pattern
- Disturbance and Goldilocks
- Diversity in disturbance
- Disturbance and renewal
- Part III The nature of resilience in society
- 6 Coping with life
- It's mostly in the mind
- But it's also in the body
- 7 Living together in society
- Rules for sharing
- Building bridges
- Adaptive living
- Governance
- 8 Weathering crises
- Learning to recover
- Progress to collapse
- Part IV Nature, society and resilience
- 9 Unintended outcomes
- Fiddling with ecosystems
- Pests and guests
- Harvesting the tropics
- Long distance effects
- Our genetic and social heritage
- Climate change
- 10 Growing pains
- Development
- Real wealth
- Inequality, power and social capital
- Shifting to an economy for sustaining human wellbeing
- Part V A way forward
- 11 Changing cultures
- Norms and ethics
- 12 A resilience pathway
- Through chance with wisdom
- Homage to St Publius
- The elements of resilience
- Transformational change
- Cycles of gridlock and renewal
- A way forward
- Epilogue: What it's all about
- Glossary
- Endnotes
- Index
