Resilience Thinking, Brian Walker
Resilience Thinking, Brian Walker
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Resilience Thinking
Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

Author: Brian Walker, David Salt, Walter V. Reid

Narrator: Tom Bromhead

Unabridged: 5 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/24/2019


Synopsis

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.


About Brian Walker

Brian Walker is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and coauthor, with David Salt, of Resilience Thinking and Resilience Practice.

He has coauthored two books, edited seven, written over 150 scientific papers, and is on the editorial boards of five international journals. He received the Ecological Society of Australia's Gold Medal for 1999. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah on April 04, 2012

Really good basic overview, though I personally think this is more useful for the practitioner than the academic. It was an easy and enjoyable read, but from the perspective of someone looking to apply resilience thinking in a rigorous research programme, I think the book is of limited use. The resi......more

Goodreads review by RJ on September 18, 2008

Good for anyone interested in social ecology and systems thinking......more

Goodreads review by Michael on September 28, 2017

Resilience Thinking is a slim book about sustainability and systems in ecology. Structured around five case studies, this volume is both a manifesto and a strong work of popular scholarship. Brian Walker clearly elucidates the failures of command-and-control ecosystem management based on optimizing......more

Goodreads review by Lan on July 12, 2013

Excellent introduction to the subject, particularly for the non-academics or for anyone looking for an easy and enjoyable to read primer to the key concepts of resilience thinking. However, I would have liked to see more discussion on limitations, problems and future developments of the resilience f......more

Goodreads review by Torsten on March 29, 2012

Excellent concise introduction to resilience thinking.......more