Resilience Thinking

Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

Brian Walker, David Salt, Walter Reid

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Island Press
01 August 2006

Ecological science, the Biosphere

"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."

By: Brian Walker, David Salt
Foreword by: Walter Reid
Imprint: Island Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: None ed.
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 265g
ISBN: 9781597260930
ISBN 10: 1597260932
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 August 2006
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Brian Walker is past chief of Australia's CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology and is currently science program director of the Resilience Alliance. 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.

Reviews for Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

<i>Resilience Thinking</i> 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. <i>Resilience Thinking</i> gives us the conceptual tools to help us cope with the bewildering surprises and challenges of our new century. --Thomas Homer-Dixon Professor of political science, University of Toronto