Searching for Resilience in Sustainable Development: Learning Journeys in Conservation

ISBN-13: 9780415524896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 188 str.

John Blewitt

Opis

This text searches for the ways in which resilience may be created within the web of ecological, socio-economic & cultural systems that make up the world in which we live & upon which all living creatures depend. The authors embark upon a learning journey exploring both robust & fragile systems & asking questions of groups & individuals actively involved in building or maintaining resilience. The book makes resilience real by showing both how it works & could work as well as the central importance of education & learning to the central project of fashioning a sustainable world.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Learning journeys and resilience in times of change  2. Resilience in Theory and Practice  3. Shifting Tactics?: Testing the resilience of a movement  4. Contesting Market Logics  5. Regenerative and Resilient Eco-cities  6. Risks, Transition and an Ecology of Circumstances  7. Education and Conservation: Building social resilience  8. Resilience, Sustainability and the Utopian Future  9. Destinations: Humpty Dumpty and the Search for Resilience

O autorze

John Blewitt is co-director of MSc Social Responsibility and Sustainability, a member of the IUCN Commission on Communication and Education. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute.

Daniella Tilbury is professor and director of sustainability at the University of Gloucestershire. She is co-chair of the Sustainable Futures Leadership Academy, a Marie Curie Fellow and president of Copernicus Alliance of Universities.