Guest Editorial, part of a Special Feature on Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems Through Comparative Studies and Theory Development:…

By B. Walker, J. Marty Anderies, Ann Kinzig, Paul Ryan. 2006

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This special issue of Ecology and Society on exploring resilience in social-ecological systems draws together insights from comparisons of 15 case studies conducted during two Resilience Alliance workshops in 2003 and 2004. As such, it represents our current understanding of resilience theory and the issues encountered in our attempts to apply it.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Global and Planetary Change

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• Quantifying economic sustainability: Implications for free-enterprise theory, policy and practice (2009, background): “…its integrity over time (May, 1972); and, 2) resilience: its reserve of flexible fall-back positions and diversity of actions that can be used to meet the exigencies of novel disturbances and the novelty needed for on-going development and evolution (Holling, 1973, 1986; Walker et al., 2006).”
• The social structural foundations of adaptation and transformation in social-ecological systems (2017, background): “These types of relationships can increase the diversity of responses and help mobilize broad support while promoting legitimacy (Adger 2003, Folke et al. 2005, Walker et al. 2006).”
• A resilience-based framework for evaluating adaptive co-management: Linking ecology, economics and society in a complex world (2007, background): “Walker et al. (2006) describe resilience as the potential of a system to remain in a particular configuration, and maintain feedbacks, functions, and an ability to reorganize following disturbancedriven change.”
• RESILIENCE: THE EMERGENCE OF A PERSPECTIVE FOR SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ANALYSES (2006, background): “…Alliance are worth mentioning; a special feature of Ecology and Society– exploring resilience in social–ecological systems with results and propositions from regional case study comparisons (Walker et al., 2006) and a book on complexity theory for a sustainable future (Norberg and Cumming, 2006).”
• Improving the effectiveness of interventions to balance conservation and development: a conceptual framework (2007, background): “This idea is encompassed by the concept of resilience, which is “...a measure of how far the system can be perturbed without shifting to a different regime” (Holling 1973, Walker et al. 2006).”
• Competing Claims on Natural Resources: What Role for Science? (2008, background): “Walker et al. (2006) highlight the difficulty in deriving and testing hypotheses when considering such complex and dynamic issues.”