Community resilience as a metaphor, theory, set of capacities. Check out these books from the greater good science center, as well as other noteworthy titles on subjects explored by the ggsc. However, there is a danger in becoming too focused on specified resilience because increasing resilience of particular parts of a system to specific disturbances may cause the system to. The popular 2006 documentary who killed the electric car. The development of a resilience intervention paper is based on a program presented at the 2014 american counseling association conference, march 2014, honolulu, hi. Five books by brian miller, originally published by south roane agrarian. An indicator framework for assessing livelihood resilience. These are our top picks of the kids books that teach resilience. Integrating resilience, adaptability and t ransformability carl folke 1,2, stephen r. Anne deveson addresses the nature of resilience, whether it can be learned, its many components, what inhibits.
Conservation magazines journal watch online returns from a long hiatus to report on an interesting new paper on the problems of detecting regime shifts by resilience researchers oonsie biggs, steve carpenter, and w. Ann marie healy is a playwright, screenwriter, and journalist. Resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacksain other words, stay in the same basin of attraction. Resilience is a program of post carbon institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities. See all 2 formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Detailed plans for more than 40 fabulous projects by tom carpenter 2001 0801 hardcover january 1, 2001 by tom carpenter author 4. Although social resilience studies typically use language borrowed from systemdynamics and complexity theory, in most cases, resilience is used simply as a metaphor carpenter et al. Together the three authors, bob carpenter, dave gillespie and ric jorge cover topics ranging from character development, what fear really is, how to. A few years ago, resiliency theory was relatively new to the fields of prevention and education. Managing for resilience enhances the likelihood of sustainable development in. Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience. In socialaecological systems, specified resilience arises in response to the question a.
Carpenter 2001, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. The resilience alliance is a research organization that focuses on resilience in socialecological systems as a basis for sustainability. These models are tools to study the generic behavior of coupled socialeconomicecological systems. This work explores resilience, one of the most important and intriguing characteristics affecting human wellbeing. Resilience is yet another memoir of lives touched by severe mental illness, and it is told well. An indicator framework for assessing livelihood resilience in. Communities have the potential to function effectively and adapt successfully in the aftermath of disasters. Pdf resilience is the magnitude of disturbance that can be tolerated before a. Mathematical modeling is so far mostly absent in research on structural change or transitions in societal systems timmermans et al. This is another rich resource from the prodigious tina rae.
Jul 14, 2015 although social resilience studies typically use language borrowed from systemdynamics and complexity theory, in most cases, resilience is used simply as a metaphor carpenter et al. Resilience explains how we can build purpose, confront pain, practice compassion, develop a vocation, find a mentor, create happiness, and much more. Holling and meffe 1996, carpenter and gunderson 2001. Glick 1994 writes,resilience 4 what we can learn from resilient people 01glicken4935. Resilience has multiple attributes, but four aspects are critical for these definitions. Robin karrmorse illuminates how the stress of early childhood trauma can hurt your. Regime shifts, resilience, and biodiversity in ecosystem management.
His work and ideas have appeared in a wide array of media outlets, including pbs, the new york times, national public radio, vanity fair, fast company, and many others. John carpenter by michelle le blanc and colin odell 2001, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. All ecosystems are exposed to gradual changes in climate, nutrient loading, habitat fragmentation or biotic exploitation. Carl folke, steve carpenter, thomas elmqvist, lance gunderson, c. Looking back, one wonders if perhaps the social and psychological sciences should have created their own language, free from inherited meanings, but the term is probably here to stay. In order to manage for resilience, the goal must be to generate improved understanding of the entire system of interest, rather than specific, detailed knowledge from parts of the system folke et al. Community resilience as a metaphor, theory, set of. Perspectives from baghdad on resilience to sectarian violence.
Stephen carpenter was born july 5, 1952, in kansas city, missouri, united states. Carl folke, steve carpenter, thomas elmqvist, lance gunderson, cs holling. Jan 01, 2015 resilience is yet another memoir of lives touched by severe mental illness, and it is told well. John carpenter by michelle le blanc and colin odell 2001, paperback at the best online prices at. Resilience and sustainable development center for ecological. Popular resilience books showing 150 of 3,675 room kindle edition by. Drawing upon literatures in several disciplines, we present a theory of resilience that encompasses contemporary understandings of stress, adaptation, wellness, and resource dynamics. Bioone provides a sustainable online platform for over 170 journals and books.
This book uses complex systems theory and resilience theory to investigate. The letters serve a guidebook for his friend, zach walker a pseudonym, and draw on greitens personal. The color purple night mans search for meaning the bluest eye i know why the caged bird sings the glass castle restoring sanctuary the little engine that could jane eyre codependent no. A pragmatic way to complement critical slowing down based resilience metrics is to develop an indexbased analysis of the capacity of countries to handle shocks e. Its metaphorical origins notwithstanding, human resilience, we. Dec 22, 2007 communities have the potential to function effectively and adapt successfully in the aftermath of disasters. The property of resilience is the key to health, wellbeing, and opportunity in networked, interconnected, selforganized systems. Complete with cd, this book is packed full of ideas and strategies for building emotional resilience. The resilience alliance is a research organization that focuses on resilience in socialecological. Response diversity for ecosystem resilience therefore has an important cross. Management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience, pp. Essential practices to help children, teens, and families find balance, calm, and resilience christopher willard sounds true according to chris willard, in a kids world there are three main elements. Content on this site is subject to our reposting policy.
By griffin carpenter, new economics foundation a decade ago electric cars were a lost cause. Hardwon wisdom for living a better life audible audiobook unabridged eric greitens author, narrator, macmillan audio publisher 4. As a parent or carer, one of the best traits to help develop in kids is resilience. Eric s lessons are deep yet practical, and his advice leads to clear solutions. Linda moon stumpff fernando sancheztrigueros alan e. They are useful for teaching general concepts of sustainability, ecosystem resilience, social flexibility, and experimental ecosystem management. Some examples of our models can be downloaded from the internet carpenter et al. Chapter author for study entitled resilience to sectarianism in the. This little book explores an important topic in the field of positive psychology. In his youth, carpenter spent his summers on his grandfathers farm in missouri. Emma donoghue goodreads author shelved 20 times as resilience avg rating 4. Today, it is at the heart of hundreds of school and community programs that recognize in all young people the capacity to lead healthy, successful lives. So, resilience as a concept is not necessarily straightforward, and there are many operational definitions in existence.
Resilience is, quite simply, a terrific bookan important sequel to clay shirkys here comes everybody. Required reading from the sustainability science book. However, there is a danger in becoming too focused on specified. Developing firefighter resiliency is a deceptively short book, but one packed with useful information and techniques for us to better teach, learn, practice and survive in this job. 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 exercise of measuring resilience is also highly variable, depending on the understanding and weight given to concepts such as coping, capacity, vulnerability and adaptive capacity.
Andrew zolli directs the global innovation network poptech and has served as a fellow of the national geographic society. In western societies scant attention has been paid to exploring how and why some people and some communities are better able to cope with adversity and risk than others. The key, as benard reports in this synthesis of a decade and more of resiliency research, is the role that families, schools, and communities. Jul 30, 2018 resilience is a program of post carbon institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping the world transition away from fossil fuels and build sustainable, resilient communities. The relationship between such concepts and resilience is rarely. Community resilience to sectarian violence in baghdad peace psychology book series 9781461488118. Gordon 1996 defines resilience as the ability to thrive, mature, and increase competence in the face of adverse circumstancesp. Two useful tools for resiliencebuilding in socialecological systems are structured scenarios and active adaptive management. Community resilience is a process linking a network of adaptive capacities resources with dynamic. A portrait of african american clergywomen by delores c. Hartley stuntzner, susan, phd, lpc, lmhpcpc, crc, ncc, is an assistant professor at the university of idaho. Resilience refers to the capacity of individuals, social groups or ses to accommodate stresses and disturbances, to selforganise, and to learn in order to maintain or improve essential basic structures and ways of functioning cf. The terms resistance and resilience are used in a variety of ways, which are often ambiguous grimm and wissel 1997, qualitative, and seemingly independent of disturbance type carpenter et al.
Carpenter 3, brian w alker 1,4, marten scheffer 5, t erry chapin 6, and. The letters serve a guidebook for his friend, zach walker a pseudonym, and draw on greitens personal experiences and knowledge of ancient and modern. Facing adversity, building resilience, and finding joy by sheryl sandberg, rising strong by. Whereas walker and cooper seek to establish the genealogy of resilience in a finite and deterministic way. His father, richard, a chemist, became the director of the national academies board on environmental studies and toxicology, so carpenter was immersed in science at a young age. Gunderson and holling 2001 define resilience as the capacity of. Detecting an impending regime shift in time to avert it. Response diversity, ecosystem change, and resilience esa journals. Resilience provides sess the capacity to buffer perturbations, selforganize, learn and adapt. Response diversity is particularly important for ecosystem renewal and. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. We must explicitly account for the role of biodiversity in ecosystem resilience for sustained social and economic development in formulating management and policy. There is also still some confusion over the use of terms engineering resilience versus ecological resilience holling.
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