Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

by Brian Walker and David Salt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597260932
• ISBN13: 9781597260930
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"