resilience

A Spoonful of Resilience

17 February, 2010 | Karen Morrison and David Waltner-Toews

A resilient health care system must constantly evolve and self-organize in order to deal with emerging situations that arise from both social and ecological realms. It must identify and react to surprises, as well as evaluate its ongoing response to changes – all while maintaining essential services.

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The Rhetoric of Resilience

17 February, 2010 | Andrew McMurry

It is frequently claimed that the human species already possesses the know-how to avert the direst consequences of climate change and environmental­ collapse – it’s now simply a matter of deploying this know-how. And if humanity does navigate the perilous 21st century, history might one day reflect how a change in attitudes and behaviours allowed those deployments to proceed. In other words, a future history’s key topic would answer this question: How did we manage to persuade­ ourselves to stop destroying the planet? …

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The Hardcore Guide to Resilience

17 February, 2010 | George Francis

The disruptive changes taking place in current social-ecological systems appear to be increasing both in magnitude and the frequency of their own complex interactions. From a worldwide perspective, they are collectively referred to as “global change.” Sustainability in this context means something entirely new: Complex social systems must possess capacities for adaptation, social innovation and creative transformation in order to be resilient in the face of both gradual and abrupt changes. In this sense, resilience in any system can be seen as the basis of its ongoing sustainability. …

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Editorial: Resilience for Dummies

17 February, 2010 | Nicola Ross

Over Christmas, I used my recently learned Spanish. Each time I understood a taxi driver or shopkeeper, I felt a great sense of awe. What once seemed to be a jumble of indistinguishable sounds had sub-divided into individual words. It was as if a microscope in my brain were able to bear down on the language’s component parts.

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Leopold's Challenge

18 June, 2009 | Stephen Bocking

Stephen Bocking hearkens back to Aldo Leopold for a new ecological vision. How can we keep all of the parts and why should we? Bocking weaves politics and science together to reveal prospects of a resilient future with ecologically creative designs for parks and neighbourhoods.

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Thinking Like an Ecosystem

26 May, 2009 | Chris McLaughlin

Do you suppose that Humpty Dumpty saw it coming? Did he have any advance warning of his impending fate? Even the slightest wobble to tip him off? I mean, as it’s told, he went straight from sitting to falling without a single intermediary step. And with no means of reversal, the results point to a change in his circumstances that was as dramatic as it was sudden.

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