Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

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· Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Tom Bromhead
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Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency. "Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change, and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability. It explains why greater efficiency by itself cannot solve resource problems and offers a constructive alternative that opens up options rather than closing them down. In Resilience Thinking, scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to the emerging paradigm of resilience. The book arose out of appeals from colleagues in science and industry for a plainly written account of what resilience is all about and how a resilience approach differs from current practices. Rather than complicated theory, the book offers a conceptual overview along with five case studies of resilience thinking in the real world.

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Brian Walker is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and coauthor, with David Salt, of Resilience Thinking and Resilience Practice.

David Salt is the editor of the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions's bimonthly magazine, Decision Point. He has served as the Communications Manager for CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology and coauthored the widely acclaimed texts Resilience Thinking, Resilience Practice, and Trees and Biodiversity.

Tom Bromhead is a uniquely international voice artist. Having grown up in Australia and England has given him an ear for accents and characters, including the GEICO Gecko, whom he voiced for several years. Tom has also starred in commercials and performed voices for video games and animated series. He lives in Los Angeles.

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