Theories for Sustainable Futures

By C. S. Holling. 2000

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According to Holling, sustainable development and management of natural resources is failing because it spans the domains of economy, ecology, and social science. Policies and programs have typically been driven by interests representative of one of these fields, each of which has its own established theoretical structure. What is required is a theoretical edifice that integrates all three. For five years, the Resilience Project has been assembling just such a theory, one that not only embraces all relevant fields, but also is simple enough to be generally understood and complex enough to handle the guide the formulation of sustainable development policy.* Reprinted with permission from Conservation Ecology (now renamed as Ecology and Society), Vol 4, Issue 2. Copyright © 2000 by The Resilience Alliance. * Subtitle and Summary not from Conservation Ecology; added with the permission by the Himalayan Journal of Sciences Himalayan Journal of Sciences 2(3): 12-14, 2004 The full text is of this article is available at the Conservation Ecology website

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Sociology and Political Science

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Social Vulnerability and Ecological Fragility: Building Bridges between Social and Natural Sciences Using the Irish Potato Famine as a Case Study (2003, background): “Acknowledging this, various chapters in the book Panarchy edited by Gunderson and Holling (2002) suggest that, under certain circumstances, poverty (not wealth) creates vulnerability in human systems (Holling 2000, Gunderson et al. 2002, Gunderson and Holling 2002, Holling et al. 2002a, 2002b).”
Reconciling sustainability, systems theory and discounting (2007, background): “According to Holling (2000), “sustainability is the capacity to create, test, and maintain adaptive capability”.”
Land-use change and socio-economic metabolism in Austria—Part I: driving forces of land-use change: 1950–1995 (2003, background): “These concepts are, therefore, useful to link socio-economic and ecological dynamics – a task of paramount importance when the creation of a knowledge base for sustainable development is at issue (Holling, 2000; Stern, 1993).”
Future research challenges for incorporation of uncertainty in environmental and ecological decision-making (2008, background): “Gunderson and Holling (2000), Cowie and Borrett (2005), Curtis et al. (2005), and Pahl-Wostl (2005) have highlighted the need for the incorporation of social and institutional aspects into decision-making processes, and recently agent-based models have been used in an attempt to integrate social,…”
Understanding the Complexity of Economic, Ecological, and Social Systems (2001, background): “Key words: hierarchy; adaptive cycles; multiple scales; resilience; sustainability.”