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. First, due to the relative novelty of the research field of social resilience, theoretical discussions about processes, drivers and indicators of social resilience are not yet fully developed adger, 2000. Create your citations, reference lists and bibliographies automatically using the apa, mla, chicago, or harvard referencing styles. When a destabilizing new technology emerges, and takenforgranted norms do not adapt consistently at the same speed, a. Social resilience frequently depends on the resilience of local ecosystems, and activities that reduce ecological resilience generally reduce sustainability of both formal and informal social institutions. Concepts and strategies for coping with climate change and environmental risk yosef jabareen. Bibliography freight transportation resilience in response. An adaptive capacity guide book home university of. Academic journal article journal of urban and regional analysis is social resilience an economic structure issue or just the ability of communities to cope with external stress. Adger 2000, resilience theory has only entered the geographical lexicon in the past half decade. He is a researcher and teacher who specialises in social vulnerability, resilience and adaptation to environmental change. Boshers, book is perhaps one of the first publications found where a resilient built environment is explored in. Resilience has been taken up in the interdisciplinary scholarship around coupled humanenvironmental systems, particularly with regards to natural resourcedependent communities.
Neil adger school of environmental sciences and cserge, university of east anglia, norwich nr4 7tj, uk abstract. For example, landholders may be highly vulnerable to even small changes in the market price of a commodity if there are no immediate viable alternatives. The publications including books, journal articles, working papers, theses, conference. Practical initiatives that tangibly address and improve societal adaptive capacity, thereby reducing vulnerability, are commonly expected to be evident at the community scale kates, 2000. In this originalecological meaning, resilience focuses on the persistence of populations. How comanagement promotes resilience for climate change adaptation in trinidad and tobago.
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. Brown 2016 in the recent book on resilience in development. Pdf building resilience to climate change through adaptive. Hardwon wisdom for living a better life 2015 is a book written by eric greitens, a former navy seal and naval officer, that consists of a series of letters written to a friend struggling with life after military service. The resilience alliance is a research organization that focuses on resilience in socialecological systems as a basis for sustainability. Similarly, social resilience is the ability of communities to recover from external shocks to their social infrastructure adger 2000. The emergence of a perspective for socialecological systems analyses. The resilience alliance is a research organization that. He teaches, supervises graduate students, and researches in the areas of environmental geography, ecological and institutional economics, and global environmental change. Introduction community resilience and environmental. A catalog record for this book is available from the library of congress.
Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this book to your organisations collection. As part of a contribution to the burgeoning research area of social resilience within human geography adger, 2000, this study has focused on the notion of social memory to enable a better understanding of the importance of community learning, tradition and stakeholder networks for resilience at community level. Sixtynine technical papers 90% published in journals, books or reports related to. The rate of change resulting from climate change will require strong resilience, or adaptive capacity, with affected communities brooks and adger, 2003. Sep 07, 2015 resilience earth sciences bibliographies in harvard style. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, this book provides a comprehensive assessment of the vietnamese situation, identifying the factors shaping social vulnerability and resilience to environmental change and considering prospects for sustainable development. Resilience as persistence, adaptability and, transformability of complex adaptive socialecological systems is the focus, clarifying the dynamic and forwardlooking nature of the concept. 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.
Janssen, marco, schoon, michael, ke, weimao and borner, katy. Received 14 june 2011 received in revised form 17 november 2011 accepted 19 may 2012. Institutional networks for inclusive coastal zone peterson, g. Published 1 march 20 20 iop publishing ltd environmental research letters, volume 8, number 1. Social vulnerability to climate change and the architecture of entitlements. Yet resilience theories pivot around a number of inherently geographical themes scale, naturesociety relations, communities and regions, risk and security, management of environmental change, agency and affect. 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.
Adger et al 2006 ecology and society ecosystembased management. This paper examines the contribution of resilience thinking for. Resilience oxford research encyclopedia of environmental. Nov, 2012 according to adger 2000, resilience, in both its social and ecological manifestations, is an important aspect of the sustainability of development and resource utilisation. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a pdf. Retrospect and prospect article pdf available in environment and development economics 302 february 2001 with 187 reads how we measure reads. Is social resilience an economic structure issue or just. In contrast, many of australias landholders are highly exposed to climate variability, but have adapted their. Unfortunately, this book cant be printed from the openbook.
The wetable a tool for participatory gis using wii technology. Scholarly networks on resilience, vulnerability and. References increasing national resilience to hazards and. Resilience earth sciences bibliographies cite this for me. Resilience thinking emphasizes that socialecological systems, from the individual, to community, to society as a whole, are embedded in the biosphere. Social resilience is the ability of society individuals, groups, communities to cope with change, including shocks to their social infrastructure adger, 2000. 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. Topics explored in the workshop range from insurance, building codes, and critical.
An analysis of empirical research on resilience, and implications for interdisciplinary praxis. Political ecology and ecological management in trinidad and tobago. But does resilience theory have the potential to influence future policy making in favour of a more sustainable development. Brown has gathered 35 interviews with black men on a subject close to their hearts.
Inappropriate the list including its title or description facilitates illegal activity, or contains hate speech or ad hominem attacks on a fellow goodreads member or author. Faculty of architecture and town planning, technionisrael institute of technology, haifa 32000, israel article info article history. Barbara j downes, fiona miller 1, jon barnett, alena glaister and heidi ellemor. In a classic paper, adger 2000 compares social and ecological resilience. Community health and resource management charm gisbased software model to enable coastal residents and local officials to readily see the impacts of different development scenarios on community resilience and natural resources under varying climate change scenarios.
Cowans, these short pieces become meditations on motherhood but also on the challenges of raising a black man in america. This definition highlights the fact that social resilience has economic, spatial and social. This book will argue that theoretical concepts such as transition theory provide a particularly novel and suitable lens. Hardwon wisdom for living a better life greitens, eric on. Political ecology an overview sciencedirect topics. Community resilience life sciences bibliographies cite. Holling and colleagues released the innovative book barrier and bridges to the.
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