About
The Resilience Science weblog is operated by Garry Peterson, a professor in Geography and the School of the Environment at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It was started in early 2005 by Garry Peterson and Marco Janssen as an experiment to communicate recent work by and of interest to those interested in resilience in social ecological systems.
Currently its contributors are members of Resilience Alliance (RA), a research network of scientists and practitioners from many disciplines who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems. Key RA concepts include resilience, the adaptive cycle, and panarchy. The RA works to develop a practical theoretical foundation for a sustainable civilization. The RA develops sustainability science along three paths:
- Contributing toward theoretical advances in the dynamics of complex adaptive systems
- Supporting rigorous testing of theory via: participatory regional case-studies, adaptive management, minimal-modelling, and the use of scenarios and other qualitative modelling tools.
- Developing guidelines and principles that will enable others to assess the resilience of coupled human-natural systems and develop policy and management tools that support sustainable development
In Feb. 2009 it contained over 690 posts on topics that include: adaptive management, urban ecology, responses to crisis, ecological functioning, serious games, visualization, and green design.
Members of the RA who are interested in contributing to the Resilience Science weblog should contact Garry Peterson.
Sorry to be a pedant, but you’ve misspelled ’surprise’ as ’suprise’ in your title slogan. I like the rest of your site though.
thanks – i’ve fixed it.
I see an option to subscribe to comment feed RSS, but not one for the blog itself. Am I not looking in the right place?
I’ve added one now.
Hi all, I’ve just created a new weblog about innovative decision making in complex systems of humans, nature and the environment. The mission of InterFaz Log is the dissemination of current knowledge about innovative decision making techniques and strategies in the fields of natural resources and ecosystems management, under the perspective that we live in a complex system of human societies, ecosystems and their environment.
The first entry is about the TRANSAM (TRANSference of Adaptive Management) Project in which, using a case study approach, we carried out an investigation into the cause of the limited transfer of adaptive management from Canada to the European Union. We also developed a research program aimed at designing and implementing a strategy to promote and facilitate a process of change towards adaptive management of natural resources and nature conservation in the European case study, with a special focus in water resources and wetlands. In particular, we focused on identifying the institutional opportunities and constraints for its application in the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve (British Columbia, Canada) and the Doñana Nature Reserve (Spain, European Union).
Would it be of your interest, do not hesitate on suscribing.
Regards,
Pablo F. Méndez.