What is Resilience, what is adaptive and transformative capacity, and what do we mean what we speak of resilience of social-ecological systems in the face of radical climate change?
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3-minute video about 7 principles (or dimensions) of resilience that science knows we need to pay attention to when thinking about building or reinforcing resilience.
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Resilience (2016) Academic article by Carl Folke giving an overview of what resilience thinking and research is and how it has developed over the past 20 years. Good reading if you like academic articles and want to go deeper into concepts like resilience, social-ecological systems, and resilience as persistence, adaptability, and transformability of such systems.
“Resilience is about cultivating the capacity to sustain development in the face of expected and surprising change and diverse pathways of development and potential thresholds between them. The evolution of resilience thinking is coupled to social-ecological systems and a truly intertwined human-environment planet.”
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Highly appreciated 7 principles of building resilience - acronym DCFCLPP- Diversity, Connectivity, Feedbacks, Complex Adaptive thinking, Learning (collaborative), Participation and Polycentric Governance. Amazing! Thank you
Thank you Anna for important reminder that we all constitute the biosphere and resilience, transformation and adaptability are important characteristics for sustainability be it people or planet!
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That’s great Aditi! One of our aims is to explore what we can learn from ecovillages that can feed into that list of principles, create our own set of resilience attributes, and do a big survey on how they are present in our network - which can then help all communities (whether ecovillages or not) to understand, measure and improve their resilience.
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What is Resilience, what is adaptive and transformative capacity, and what do we mean what we speak of resilience of social-ecological systems in the face of radical climate change?
Resilience is the ability to adapt to change. In an ever evolving world and in the face of radical climate change, we must work together as a human species to protect, preserve, and restore our ecosystems to ensure the wellbeing of all life in our Earth Community. We must recognize our interdependence and how our everyday choices impact the world in which we exist.
We humans have tremendously affected the balance of Nature. It is our responsibility and our ‘ability to respond’ to these changes that will help us steer this collective ship in a new direction where all life can thrive and we can learn to live mindfully.
We must understand the numerous factors that have influenced our present global scenario, so we can develop new strategies to regenerate our human population and collective cultures as well as our ecosystems, embracing the fact that we are all in this together and together we can participate in planetary transformation towards harmonious living.
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