Building Resilience in a Changing Climate: CCSOS. Climate shocks are on the way.
We’ve already spewed so much carbon into the atmosphere that a cascade of worsening crop failures, droughts, floods, and freak storms is virtually guaranteed. You, your family, and your community will feel the effects. Ironically, however, avoiding climate change also has its costs. It makes sense from a climate-protection standpoint to dramatically and rapidly reduce our use of fossil fuels, which drive global warming. But these fuels largely, well, fueled the spectacular economic growth of the past 200 years, and weaning ourselves from them quickly now—while most industrial economies are over-indebted and starved for growth—could risk financial upheaval. Oil, the most economically pivotal of the fossil fuels, is getting more expensive anyway.
In the face of impending environmental and economic shocks, our best strategy is to build resilience throughout society. In many respects a resilient society defies the imperative of economic efficiency. Building a nation of resilient communities. Social Innovation eXchange.
Social Innovation eXchange. Resilience Alliance - Resilience. Ecosystem resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem to tolerate disturbance without collapsing into a qualitatively different state that is controlled by a different set of processes.
A resilient ecosystem can withstand shocks and rebuild itself when necessary. Resilience in social systems has the added capacity of humans to anticipate and plan for the future. Humans are part of the natural world. We depend on ecological systems for our survival and we continuously impact the ecosystems in which we live from the local to global scale. Resilience is a property of these linked social-ecological systems (SES). The amount of change the system can undergo and still retain the same controls on function and structureThe degree to which the system is capable of self-organizationThe ability to build and increase the capacity for learning and adaptation Coral Dominance > > > > Algal Dominance Coral reefs are spectacular marine ecosystems known for their diversity of eye-pleasing fish and corals. Frances Westley, PhD. Frances Westley joined the University of Waterloo as the JW McConnell Chair in Social Innovation in July 2007.
In this capacity she is one of the principle leads in a Canada wide initiative in social innovation, SiG (Social Innovation Generation), a cross sectoral partnership to build capacity for social innovation in Canada funded by the J.W McConnell Family Foundation, University of Waterloo and the Ontario government. At University of Waterloo she leads a research team dedicated to understanding social innovation, and has designed both graduate and undergraduate curricula in social innovation. Dr.
Stockholm Resilience Centre. Official Site. Community resilience and adaptation. Resilient communities are capable of bouncing back from adverse situations.
They can do this by actively influencing and preparing for economic, social and environmental change. When times are bad they can call upon the myriad of resouces that make them a healthy community. A high level of social capital means that they have access to good information and communication networks in times of difficulty, and can call upon a wide range of resources. The papers and reports linked to here recognise resilience as being people-centered, and highlight the importance of thinking about the social actors involved and their agency - social dynamics, power and politics. A number of other papers that extend this ideas of community resilience to adapt to change through self-organization and learning can be found from related pages on the site.
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