Why Resilience?
While there are many definitions of resilience, it can generally be defined as the capacity for a system to survive, adapt, and flourish in the face of turbulent change and uncertainty.
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Review: Practicing, Not Preaching: A Helpful Guide for Resilience Practitioners
Resilience Practice ably picks up where Resilience Thinking (2010) left off.
Living and Breathing in a ‘Black Swan’ World
Resilience…is the capacity to make ongoing adjustments to changing political, economic, and ecological conditions.
The Transition Movement: Questions of Diversity, Power, and Affluence – Part 2
This raises the question: To what extent can the Transition movement avoid the pain, hardship, and conflict historically associated with significant social movements…?
Sustainability vs. Resilience
Resilience thinking is a complement to sustainability, not a substitute.
The End of Sustainability
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine — and ultimately move past — the concept of sustainability.
Sustainability, Resilience and Adaptability as Guiding Principles
An important part of many worldviews are key words that embody guiding principles. Freedom, liberty and justice represent three such words in the US, and in this post I’d like to explore a few that act as guiding principles in more limited contexts: sustainability, resilience and adaptability.
Coming into Carbon Country
Climate change is carbon, hunger is carbon, money is carbon, politics is carbon, land is carbon, we are carbon.
Permaculture and the 8 Forms of Capital
How can the permaculture approach can be applied to creating value — aka, capital — across the full spectrum of our lives?
Systems Thinking and the Future of Cities
The idea that nothing exists in isolation−but only as part of a system−has long been embedded in folklore, religious scriptures, and common sense.
Resilience, impact, and learning
Resilience is about the capacity of a system to be able to respond to change.
Resilience in 6 icons
What is resilience and why do we need it?