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In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much can they take and still deliver the services we need from them? This idea caught the attention of both the sc
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Resilience Practice Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function
Brian Walker & David Salt
WASHINGTON | COVELO | LONDON
Copyright © 2012 Brian Walker and David Salt All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher: Island Press, 1718 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009. ISLAND PRESS is a trademark of The Center for Resource Economics.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Walker, B. H. (Brian Harrison), 1940Resilience practice : building capacity to absorb disturbance and maintain function / Brian Walker, David Salt. p. cm. ISBN 978-1-59726-800-4 (hardback) -- ISBN 1-59726-800-3 (cloth) -- ISBN 978-1-59726-801-1 (paper) 1. Natural resources--Management. 2. Natural resources--Management--Case studies. 3. Resilience (Ecology)--Case studies. 4. Nature conservation--Case studies. 5. Environmental protection--Case studies. I. Salt, David (David Andrew) II. Title. HC59.15.W348 2012 333.7--dc23 2012016122
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Keywords: Island Press, complex adaptive systems, sustainability, tipping points, planetary boundaries, adaptive management, adaptive governance and state-and-transition models, natural resources management, sustainable development, human ecology, ecological resilience, resilience thinking, managing resilience, practicing resilience, resilience assessments, specified resilience, general resilience, transformability, self-organizing systems, adaptive cycles, adaptive systems, ecological threshold, panarchy, ecosystem services, resilience.
Contents Foreword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv
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Preparing for Practice: The Essence of Resilience Thinking 1
CASE STUDY
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Thresholds on the Range: A Safe Operating Space for Grazing Enterprises 27
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Describing the System 35
CASE STUDY
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From Taos to Bali and Sri Lanka: Traditional Irrigation at the Crossroads 55
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Assessing Resilience 67
CASE STUDY
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Assessing Resilience for “the Plan”: The Namoi and Central West Catchment Management Authorities 107
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Managing Resilience 117
CASE STUDY
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People and Pen Shells, Marine Parks and Rules: Why Governance Is Central to the Resilience of Coastal Fisheries 135
5 Practicing Resilience in Different Ways CASE STUDY
145
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Out of the Swamp: Lessons from Big Wetlands 169
6 A Resilient World
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Postscript: A View from the Northwest Passage 201 References 205 Glossary 213 About the Authors 217 Index 219
Foreword
T
his is a timely and compelling book. The future of our planet and of ourselves is looking increasingly uncertain. We are beset by stresses and shocks—of all kinds, natural and human induced—that are growing in frequency and size. We have shown enormous ingenuity in the past in applying science and technology to increase food production, reduce mortality, and improve the quality of human life, even though
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