This article presents the origin of the resilience perspective and. It was rewarding to read a book that discusses and illustrates resilience from so many perspectives. This progress report on the nap global networks activities from december 2018 to november 2019 highlights how the network has contributed to global efforts for adaptation to succeed at scale and over the longer term by supporting developing countries to advance national adaptation planning and action. An introduction to the volume, eds clark wc, jager j, eijnhoven vj, dickson n mit press, cambridge, ma, vol 1. The global risk and resilience program grrp seeks to support the development of inclusive, resilient networks in local communities facing global change. The resilience perspective is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamics of social ecological systems. It recombines experience and knowledge, learning with change, turning crises. How to build resilience in times of change huffpost. The global resilience partnership grp is an independent partnership of public and private organisations joining forces towards a sustainable and prosperous future grp is funded by usaid, sida, dfid, and zurich insurance and is hosted by the stockholm resilience centre.
Socialecological resilience is the capacity to adapt or transform in the face of. This chapter analyzes the complex interplays between and among sustainability, resilience, adaptation and transformation, key paradigms and analytical concepts that have emerged from the human environmental interactions, social ecological systems, and global environmental change literatures. Global environmental change, resilience, and sustainable. Another term that has been applied to the environment more recently as a supplement or alternative to sustainability is resilience. Resilience, development and global change new book. Unfccc united nations framework convention on climate change. Resilience is everywhere in contemporary debates about global environmental change.
The biosphere is the global ecological system integrating all living beings and their. The idea of ecological resilience was slow to gain acceptance in the scientific community, taking thirty years to become widely accepted gunderson 2000, cited under original definition. Climate change threatens current theories and practice of development and demands a new approach to wellbeing, progress, justice and environment. Furthermore, resilience in social ecological systems has the added capacity of humans to anticipate change and influence future pathways. This article is based on the premises that communities can develop resilience by actively building and engaging the capacity to thrive in an environment characterized by change, and that community resilience is an important indicator of social sustainability. This definition highlights social resilience in relation to the concept of ecological resilience which is a characteristic of ecosystems to maintain themselves. Global transformations, social metabolism and the dynamics of socio environmental conflicts.
The resilience and adaptive capacity of socialenvironmental. Social ecological resilience is the capacity to adapt or transform in the face of change in social ecological systems, particularly unexpected change, in ways that continue to support human wellbeing chapin et al. More than anything else it maps new territory for leaders whether they seek to impact business, science, national security, or social transformation. In a classic paper, adger 2000 compares social and ecological resilience and defines social resilience as the ability of groups or communities to cope with external stresses and disturbances as a result of social, institutional, political, and environmental change. How global responses to climate change can draw upon permacultures philosophy, perspectives and design principles, that complement science and indigenous knowledge. Krasny, cecilia lundholm and ryan plummer present the special issue on resilience in socialecological systems. You can see further details here i became interested in resilience because as a concept it brought a perspective on understanding change that accounts for uncertainty and nonlinearity, which better reflects the realities of rapidly changing world. When resilience is enhanced, a system is more likely to tolerate disturbance events without collapsing into a qualitatively different state that is controlled by a different set of processes. Environmental change, resilience, and adaptation in nature. Find out more about me, my book, the projects im currently working on and the people i work with. Social protection programmes encompass a range of interventions from safetynet programmes to social insurance programmes that can enhance the beneficiarys resilience to. Oct 14, 2018 o ver the past few decades, mary robinson has relentlessly promoted gender equality, human rights and social justice across the globe, both in her role as the former president of ireland, and as. The following section connects resilience with socialecological systems. Social dimensions of resilience in socialecological.
Mar 25, 2020 however, in conversation, some of my thinktank colleagues have suggested the pandemic could turn out to be a goldilocks crisis that would disrupt the global order just enough, and in such a way, as to foster a response that sets at least some societies on a trajectory toward cooperation, redistribution, and degrowth. Researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners concerned with global change will appreciate katrina browns revisioning of resilience as an opportunity to collectively negotiate and influence current and future sustainabilities. A socialecological legacy stockholm resilience centre. Social ecological systems ses resilience has become the mainstream analytical framework for understanding the interactions between the social and environmental dynamics of change. Migration and global environmental change 10 the challenges of migration in the context of environmental change require a new strategic approach to policy. Without a change in policy, global demand for natural resources is increasing, sometimes beyond the. Disasters in the time of global climate change and local community resilience.
April 9, 20 by carolyn lamere toward resilience is a series on the meaning of global resilience and vulnerability today. Pdf global environmental change i a social turn for resilience. The geographies of community disaster resilience sciencedirect. The conclusion offers some preliminary answers to the two questions, describes signs of globalization in the society for research in child development srcd, and.
Essential resources for an era of upheaval, edited by daniel lerch and published with island press. Global and local environmental sustainability, development. Surely resilience and the ability to adapt to adversity by bouncing back is in everyones interest. Evolution of natural and social science interactions in. Snowden, a professor emeritus of history and the history of medicine at yale, examines the ways in which.
Inspiring ecological, social, economic and cultural responses for resilience and transformation by thomas henfrey and gil penhalopes. N2 it is increasingly clear that change is as normal a condition as stability when considering the condition of social ecological systems. This is a list of global issues informally, a global issue is any issue problem, risk that adversely affects the global community and environment, possibly in a catastrophic way, including environmental issues, political crisis, social issues and economic crisis. For example, action in response to the climate crisis is often heavily constrained in the global north not due to a lack of capacity but rather to a lack of political will to address climate change. Resilience thinking can overturn orthodox approaches to international development dominated by modernization, aid dependency and a focus on economic growth and to global environmental change characterized by technocratic approaches, market environmentalism. News world news business environment health social justice. Promoting sustainable livelihoods, reducing vulnerability.
The main goal of this special issue is to offer a room for interdisciplinary and engaged research in global environmental change gec, where gender plays a key role in building resilience and adaptation pathways. The focus is shifting from the environment as externality to the biosphere as. David eisenmans expertise is in public health and disasters. Numerous studies in urban resilience have been published in the past decade. Policy makers will need to take action to reduce the impact of environmental change on communities yet must simultaneously plan for migration. The scope of endangered children in the world and the stakes for families, cultures, and societies are enormous. Community resilience for environment and disaster risk. Community resilience for environment and disaster risk reduction henceforth, global programme. T1 global environmental change, resilience, and sustainable outcomes. Resilience is everywhere in contemporary debates about global environmental. Resilience environmental science oxford bibliographies. A comparative history of social responses to climate change, ozone depletion, and acid rain, the social learning group, managing global environmental change.
Resilience, development and global change, has been published by routledge. Resilience environmental humanities duke university press. Were pleased to announce the publication of our latest book, the community resilience reader. Global environmental change i a social turn for resilience. By providing a platform for sharing lessons, mapping knowledge, and linking people and ideas, grrp and its affiliated programs empower policymakers, practitioners, and community members to participate in the global dialogue on. Resilience theory has emerged as a holistic concept well suited to analyzing tourism systems and which promises important insights into the sustainability of tourism destinations in the face of accelerating global environmental change gec. Resilience is the most compelling book ive read in years about how to navigate the accelerating pace of change that characterizes our lives today.
A thought leader series piece by david eisenman note. This chapter analyzes the complex interplays between and among sustainability, resilience, adaptation and transformation, key paradigms and analytical concepts that have emerged from the humanenvironmental interactions, socialecological systems, and global environmental change literatures. The application of resilience concepts to social and ecological systems. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Global environmental change gec represents an immediate and unprecedented threat to the food security of hundreds of millions of people, especially those who depend on smallscale agriculture for their livelihoods. How do population dynamics and social cohesion affect the resilience of societies. In responding to recent calls for a social and political turn in resilience thinking1821, we define livelihood resilience as the capacity of all people across generations to sustain and improve their livelihood opportunities and wellbeing despite environmental, economic, social. It has also been used in relation to social change where, for example, adger 2000 defined social resilience as the ability of human communities to withstand external shocks to their social infrastructure, such as environmental variability or social, economic and political upheaval. Social resilience was defined by adger 2000 as the ability of groups or communities to cope with external stresses and disturbances as a result of social, political and environmental change. The application of resilience concepts to social and ecological systems and dilemmas has been roundly critiqued for undertheorizing social dimensions, and human geographers particularly have been an important critical voice in highlighting the omission. In this editorial paper, we explain the background setting, key questions and core approaches of gender and feminist research in vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to gec. Drawing on detailed case studies from diverse regions, it shows the kind of actions needed to counter food insecurity and ensure investments pay off. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Global environmental change offers a strategy for combining the efforts of natural and social scientists to better understand how our actions influence global change and how global change influences us.
Global perspectives on resilience in children and youth. Gender perspectives in resilience, vulnerability and. Since then a lot has happened in the research on resilience in social ecological systems. I see my book as responding to these scholarly and policy imperatives for a new set of ideas about development in this age of uncertainty and recurrent crises. A climate resilient approach to social protection global. Resilience alliance a research network that focuses on social ecological resilience resilience alliance stockholm resilience centre an international centre that advances trans disciplinary research for governance of social ecological systems with a special emphasis on resilience the ability to deal with change and continue to. Resilience thinking can overturn orthodox approaches to international development dominated by modernization, aid dependency and a focus on economic growth and to global environmental change characterized by technocratic approaches, market environmentalism and commoditization of ecosystem services. Nov 22, 2016 the main goal of this special issue is to offer a room for interdisciplinary and engaged research in global environmental change gec, where gender plays a key role in building resilience and adaptation pathways. Katrina brown university of exeter, uk abstract resilience is everywhere in contemporary debates about global environmental change. Exploring the emerging evolution trends of urban resilience. This article defines social resilience as the ability of groups or communities to cope with external stresses and disturbances as a result of social, political and environmental change. Climate change having serious impacts on the livelihoods of the poor and marginalized this global programme comes at a time when the effects of climate change are accelerating and a universal. The application of resilience concepts to social and ecological systems and dilemmas has been roundly critiqued for under.
The stakes are massive, the risks and uncertainties severe, the economics controversial, the science besieged, the politics bitter and complicated, the psychology puzzling, the impacts devastating, the interactions with other environmental and non environmental. Dec 16, 20 why is developmental science important for global resilience. In the global environmental change arena, the ideas on resilience have been mainly though not exclusively drawn from the field of ecology. Presentation at the uic global health colloquium, april 3, 2018, uic center for global health, chicago, il. It applies resilience ideas specifically to international development and relates resilience to core theories in development and shows how a radical, resiliencebased approach to development might transform responses to climate change, to the dilemmas of managing. This article presents the origin of the resilience perspective and provides an overview of its development to date. It applies resilience ideas specifically to international development and relates resilience to core theories in development and shows how a radical, resiliencebased approach to development might transform responses to climate change, to the dilemmas of managing forests and ecosystems, and to rural and urban poverty in the developing world.
The application of resilience concepts to social and ecological systems and dilemmas has been roundly critiqued for undertheorizing social dimensions, and human geographers particularly have been an important critical voice in highlighting the omission of social, political and cultural dynamics from different resilience literatures. The application of resilience concepts to social and ecological systems and dilemmas has been roundly critiqued. The goal of the observance is to remove barriers people face due to gender, age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, or disability. While resilience theory is often praised for its focus on the interconnections between social and ecological systems, a common critique leveled against resilience theory generally, and urban climate resilience more specifically, is that it fails to address issues of equity 72,73. Resilience, development and global change presents a sophisticated, theoretically informed synthesis of resilience thinking across disciplines. My latest paper, a progress report in the journal progress in human geography, questions whether there is a more nuanced and sophisticated analysis and understanding of social aspects appearing in the literature on resilience. Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever to have confronted human social, political, and economic systems. Subsequently, i describe the maturation of developmental resilience science, progress toward a global knowledge base on resilience in children and youth, and enduring controversies.
Global environmental change human and policy dimensions 163. Here, and as shown in table 2, two journals dominate the resilience debate completelyecology and society, which has published on resilience since its inception in 2003, and global environmental change gec, which started to publish widely on social ecological resilience in connection with a special issue in 2006 on resilience, vulnerability. Resilience, development and global change new book published. Community resilience, as defined herein, is the existence, development, and engagement.
Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. The power problematic in socialecological systems, phd dissertation. Specifically, this chapter provides a summary of how these key paradigms and analytical. Promoting sustainable livelihoods, r educing vulnerability and building resilience in the drylands. Global environmental change special issues elsevier. Progress in human geography global environmental change i. What exactly are resilience and transformative resilience.
Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change. This book helps us understand the complex linkages between food security and global environmental change. Interplays of sustainability, resilience, adaptation and. The emergence of a perspective for social ecological systems analyses. Today, with the new sustainable development goals and a revived global environmental change research agenda this approach is as pertinent as ever. A reciprocal case can be made for the value of developmental science with respect to global resilience. The volume is accessible to the nonscientist and provides a wide range of examples and case studies. An end to silver linings or an old lesson for a new world. The book then discusses the state of global legislation and means of tracking progress.
Introduction to the community resilience reader resilience. Mar 06, 2012 2001 in learning to manage global environmental risks. Special issues published in global environmental change. Resilience, development and global change 1st edition. This definition highlights the fact that social resilience has economic, spatial and social. The book critically analyzes the multiple meanings and applications of resilience ideas in contemporary society and to suggests where, how and why resilience might cause us to rethink global change and development, and how this new approach might be operationalized. Gef global environment facility gspr growth strategy for poverty reduction. Although there are many different definitions of the term, vulnerability can be broadly defined as the potential for loss, the state of susceptibility to harm from exposure to stresses associated with environmental and social change and from the absence of capacity to adapt ref. These have spread to broader applications to linked social ecological systems referred to as ses, and in turn these have influenced and are influenced by work on. Suffice it to say that the health consequences can be felt now and are not simply a problem for some future generation to tackle patz et al.
Much of my work focuses on social responses to environmental change, but i try to understand this within the context of other changes in culture, economy, technology and knowledge. Critical tools for adaptation planning are highlighted from social capital and ethics, to decision. May 01, 2017 who could possibly disagree with making social, economic, and ecological systems more resilient in the face of our current environmental problems, especially global climate change. An enlightening global journey reveals the inextricable links between indigenous cultures and their landsand how they can form the foundation for climate change resilience around the world. One cannot turn on the news today without a report on an extreme weather event or the latest update on antarctica. It considers future social, environmental and economic costs and benefits of businessasusual models of growth against alternative, more sustainable options. Bob doppelt, coordinator of the international transformational resilience coalition, a global coalition of resilience researchers and practitioners focused on building human resilience for climate change, is also eager to better understand the psychological aspects of climate change. Feb 26, 20 despite the fact that the social and economic dimensions, i. Here, and as shown in table 2, two journals dominate the resilience debate completelyecology and society, which has published on resilience since its inception in 2003, and global environmental change gec, which started to publish widely on socialecological resilience in connection with a special issue in 2006 on resilience, vulnerability. Linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Resilience, development and global change book depository.
Comparing conceptualizations of urban climate resilience. February 20, 2014, is the united nations world day of social justice. A critical social resilience research frontier is exploring how power dynamics shape how people, communities, institutions, and socialecological systems can initiate and steer desirable change. Resilience is an important framework for understanding and managing complex systems of people and nature that are subject to abrupt and nonlinear change. Global resilience partnership stockholm resilience centre. The book is aimed primarily at scholars, particularly researchers on environmental change and international development. Resilience has been proposed by some as the new buzzword or lingo of environmental science and ecology, replacing or augmenting use of the term sustainability. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search.
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