Resilience Practice: Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function

Anything you can learn about this will make our highly uncertain and difficult future better.

This is another in a series of presentations about how to build resiliency in both landscapes and economies. While much of the early writing was difficult an an introduction, this is a followup to an earlier book by this author and David Salt. The question is great given population growth and environmental degradation, "how can landscapes and communities absorb disturbance and maintain function?" In a sense, this should be a five star book because the terrain is so difficult and the current thinking still in flux that a more complete or elaborate presentation isn't possible at the moment. Nonetheless, this is a very useful contribution and can be understood by most interested parties. Thanks Brian for this new contribution.

Case studies brought life to concepts. Great companion to Resilience Thinking. Applications of concepts not sugarcoated or doomday but realistic.

Forced to read this for a university class. Glad I did. Very informative and can use the information in many disciplines other than tree huggin'. Must have for continuity / contingency planners.

I'm part way into reading this book as part of a graduate school course requirement. The book is well written and interesting. It meets my expectation.

the examples provide a very readable and practical view of how applying resilience thinking in the natural world can be undertaken and it's value when looking at our natural systems. Trying to constrain and manage natural systems has shown to a fruitless exercise, yet Governments still view that 'we can control nature, we can control it, mould it to our wants' but when looking at how to work 'with' systems as opposed to 'on' systems there is a better chance of success. This book shows how it has been done, and explains the thinking behind 'resilience' clearly.

Practical enough for a good start! Clear, practical and still very interesting to read of course after the reading of the 2006 book call: ''Resilience Thinking''. Thanks!

A great completion of Resilience Thinking