Finding Resilience

Name: Finding Resilience
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SKU: 9781486310777
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Change and Uncertainty in Nature and Society

By Brian Walker

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Summary

Finding Resilience explores the increasing frequency of floods, fires, famines and epidemics, highlighting the essential quality of resilience in facing these global challenges. The book clarifies the varied meanings of resilience across psychology, ecology, economics and engineering, avoiding jargon to present an authoritative yet accessible account. Drawing on international research and compelling global stories, it reveals how ecosystems, societies and individuals withstand and adapt to disturbance and adversity, showing how resilience is expressed, gained and lost.
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Ideal for students, educators and readers interested in environmental science, social resilience, and global challenges.

An analysis of how ecosystems, societies and people cope with disturbance and adversity.

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Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience. But what does that mean? The word is used differently in psychology, ecology, economics and engineering and runs the risk of becoming meaningless jargon. This would be most unfortunate because, if we are to successfully navigate very real and dangerous global trends, it is resilience that needs to be understood and fostered.

Finding Resilience is international in scope and unravels how ecosystems, societies and people cope with disturbance and adversity. An authoritative but plain English account which is based on the experiences of researchers, the fascinating stories from around the world reveal what resilience is, how it works in different kinds of systems, how it is expressed, and how it can be gained and lost.

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Dr Douglas Bardsley describes it as “a beautiful and thoughtful book, useful for students seeking rational answers to complex socio-ecological questions.”

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781486310777

Publisher: CSIRO Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2019

Country: Australia

Imprint: CSIRO Publishing

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 245.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 168

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About the Author

Brian Walker has conducted and led research on resilience in social-ecological systems around the world. He was Senior Lecturer at the University of Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, Professor of Ecology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Chief of Australia’s CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology. He is a past-Chair of the International Resilience Alliance and of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics in Stockholm, and is now an Honorary CSIRO Fellow and Honorary Professor at The Australian National University. Brian was the recipient of the prestigious Blue Planet Prize in 2018.

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