C. S. “Buzz” Holling one of the founders of the Resilience Alliance has agreed to serialize his reflections on his research as a special series of posts on Resilience Science.

Though his publications Buzz Holling has contributed a powerful set of new ideas to ecology. These ranged from the mathematical formulation of predation, to the ideas of resilience, adaptive management, and panarchy. His work has had a growing impact in ecology and related fields such as ecological economics, geography, and global change research.