Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

摘要: Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide goods services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more same" created situation first place: more control, intensification, greater efficiency. "Resilience thinking" offers a different way understanding world new approach managing resources. It embraces human natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles change seeks understand qualities system must be maintained or enhanced order achieve sustainability. explains why efficiency by itself cannot solve resource problems constructive alternative opens up options rather than closing them down. In Thinking", scientist Brian Walker science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction emerging paradigm resilience. book arose out appeals colleagues industry plainly written account what resilience is all about how differs current practices. Rather complicated theory, conceptual overview along with five case studies thinking real world. engaging important work anyone interested risk