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Finding resilience : change and uncertainty in nature and society / Brian Walker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Brian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disasters--Social aspects.
- Disasters.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (166 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Clayton, VIC : CSIRO Publishing, [2019]
- Summary:
- An analysis of how ecosystems, societies and people cope with disturbance and adversity.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part I What's it all about?
- 1 Connections in a changing world
- Where are we heading?
- Connections with nature
- 2 Another pathway
- What is resilience?
- Part II Encountering resilience in nature
- 3 Living together in ecosystems
- Pyramids and webs
- Cascades, keystones and genes
- 4 Ecological choreography
- Choosing what to eat
- Choosing where to eat
- Fuzziness, chance and resilience
- 5 Disturbance, change and diversity
- The architects of pattern
- Disturbance and Goldilocks
- Diversity in disturbance
- Disturbance and renewal
- Part III The nature of resilience in society
- 6 Coping with life
- It's mostly in the mind
- But it's also in the body
- 7 Living together in society
- Rules for sharing
- Building bridges
- Adaptive living
- Governance
- 8 Weathering crises
- Learning to recover
- Progress to collapse
- Part IV Nature, society and resilience
- 9 Unintended outcomes
- Fiddling with ecosystems
- Pests and guests
- Harvesting the tropics
- Long distance effects
- Our genetic and social heritage
- Climate change
- 10 Growing pains
- Development
- Real wealth
- Inequality, power and social capital
- Shifting to an economy for sustaining human wellbeing
- Part V A way forward
- 11 Changing cultures
- Norms and ethics
- 12 A resilience pathway
- Through chance with wisdom
- Homage to St Publius
- The elements of resilience
- Transformational change
- Cycles of gridlock and renewal
- A way forward
- Epilogue: What it's all about
- Glossary
- Endnotes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4863-1078-8
- OCLC:
- 1089278767
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