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| Lockwood, Michael; Geography and Environmental Studies, School of Land & Food, University of Tasmania; Michael.Lockwood@utas.edu.au; Mitchell, Michael; Geography and Environmental Studies, School of Land & Food, University of Tasmania; Michael.Mitchell@utas.edu.au; Moore, Susan A.; School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University ; S.Moore@murdoch.edu.au; Clement, Sarah; School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University ; S.Clement@murdoch.edu.au. |
| Biodiversity conservation continues to be a challenging task for societies worldwide. We undertook a resilience assessment to address the following question: What are the ramifications of social-ecological system dynamics for biodiversity governance of a nationally significant landscape? Resilience assessment offers promise for guiding response strategies, potentially enabling consideration of ecological, social, economic, and governance influences on biodiversity-related activities. Most resilience assessments have, however, struggled to effectively incorporate governance influences. We applied a modified version of the Resilience Alliance workbook approach to explicitly address governance influences at each stage of an assessment of internationally... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive cycle; Biodiversity; Climate change; Governance; Resilience assessment; Transformation. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Sellberg, My M.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; my.sellberg@su.se; Wilkinson, Cathy; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; wilkinson_cathy@yahoo.com.au; Peterson, Garry D.; Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden; garry.peterson@su.se. |
| Cities and towns have become increasingly interested in building resilience to cope with surprises, however, how to do this is often unclear. We evaluated the ability of the Resilience Assessment Workbook to help urban areas incorporate resilience thinking into their planning practice by exploring how a resilience assessment process complemented existing planning in the local government of Eskilstuna, Sweden. We conducted this evaluation using participant observation, semistructured interviews, and a survey of the participants. Our findings show that the resilience assessment contributed to ongoing planning practices by addressing sustainability challenges that were not being addressed within the normal municipal planning or operations, such as local food... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Crisis management; Eskilstuna; Local government planning; Participatory processes; Resilience assessment; Sustainable development; Sweden; Transdisciplinary research; Urban planning. |
| Ano: 2015 |
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| Although several frameworks for assessing the resilience of social-ecological systems (SESs) have been developed, some practitioners may not have sufficient time and information to conduct extensive resilience assessments. We have presented a simplified approach to resilience assessment that reviews the scientific, historical, and social literature to rate the resilience of an SES with respect to nine resilience properties: ecological variability, diversity, modularity, acknowledgement of slow variables, tight feedbacks, social capital, innovation, overlap in governance, and ecosystem services. We evaluated the effects of two large-scale projects, the construction of a major dam and the implementation of an ecosystem recovery program, on the resilience... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Ecological resilience; Platte River; Resilience assessment; Social-ecological system; Social resilience. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Liu, Wai Ting; Alumna, Environment and Resource Studies Graduate Program, University of Waterloo; sellearth@yahoo.com. |
| Resilience assessment can be used to determine major issues, stakeholders, vulnerabilities, and opportunities of a social–ecological system to enhance resilience. A resilience assessment was conducted on the Town of Caledon, Ontario between 2010 and 2011 using the Resilience Assessment Workbook for Practitioners (version 1). The assessment explores the following three questions: Resilience of what? Resilience to what? Resilience with what? The answer to the first question describes the history, main issues, and stakeholders of the focal system. The answers to the remaining two questions describe potential resilience threats and assets, respectively. The assessment results include (1) identified resilience threats and assets of Caledon as a... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Conflicting interests; Resilience assessment; Resilience assets and threats; Urban growth. |
| Ano: 2014 |
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| Leith, Peat; Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture, University of Tasmania; Peat.Leith@utas.edu.au; Madin, Elizabeth M.; Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Technology Sydney; Dept. of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University ; dr.elizabeth.madin@gmail.com. |
| We seek to contribute to the scholarship on operationalizing resilience concepts via a working resilience indicator framework. Although it requires further refinement, this practical framework provides a useful baseline for generating awareness and understanding of the complexity and diversity of variables that impinge on resilience. It has potential value for the evaluation, benchmarking, monitoring, and reporting of marine system resilience. The necessity for such a framework is a consequence of the levels of complexity and uncertainty associated with climate change and other global change stressors in marine social-ecological systems, and the problems involved in assessing their resilience. There is a need for: (1) methodologies that bring together... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Australia; Climate change impacts; Marine sector; Resilience assessment; Resilience indicator. |
| Ano: 2013 |
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