Resilience thinking : sustaining ecosystems and people in a changing world /.

By:

Walker, Brian. (Brian Harrison), 1940-

Contributor(s):

Salt, David. (David Andrew)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2006.Description: xvi, 174 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:

1597260924 (hbk.)
1597260932

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

333.7 22

LOC classification:

HC59.15 .W35 2006

Partial contents:

1. Living in a complex world: an introduction to resilience thinking -- 2. The system rules: Creating a mind space for resilience thinking -- 3. Crossing the threshold: Be careful about the path you choose - you may not be able to return -- 4. In the loop: phases, cycles and scales: Adaptive cycles and how systems change -- 5. Making sense of resilience: How do you apply resilience thinking? -- 6. Creating space in a shrinking world: Resilience and sustainability.

Summary: 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.

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Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [159]-162.

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.

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