Can Resilience be Reconciled with Globalization and the Increasingly Complex Conditions of Resource Degradation in Asian Coastal Regions

By D. Armitage, Derek Johnson. 2006

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This paper explores the relationship between resilience and globalization. We are concerned, most importantly, with whether resilience is a suitable conceptual framework for natural resource management in the context of the rapid changes and disruptions that globalization causes in social-ecological systems. Although theoretical in scope, we ground this analysis using our experiences in two Asian coastal areas: Junagadh District in Gujarat State, India and Banawa Selatan, in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. We present the histories of resource exploitation in the two areas, and we attempt to combine a resilience perspective with close attention to the impact of globalization. Our efforts serve as a basis from which to examine the conceptual and practical compatibility of resilience with globalization. The first challenge we address is epistemological: given that resilience and globalization have roots in different disciplines, do they share a sufficiently common perception of change and human action to be compatible? Second, we address the issue of how resilience can be a viable management objective in the rapidly changing context of globalization. We identify scale as particularly important in this regard.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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The importance of social drivers in the resilient provision of ecosystem services (2011, background): “Consequently, Carpenter et al. (2001) cautions that resilience of such a chosen set of services is a ‘‘normative concept;’’ and Armitage and Johnson (2006, 14) urge that consideration of resilience under such circumstances should be ‘‘situated in the context of contested and evolving human…”
A resilience-based framework for evaluating adaptive co-management: Linking ecology, economics and society in a complex world (2007, background): “Efforts to define resilience must be situated in the context of contested and evolving human interests (Armitage and Johnson, 2006), thus highlighting the critical role of human interaction mediated through adaptive co-management processes.”
Exploring Strategies that Build Livelihood Resilience: a Case from Cambodia (2006, background): “Given that there are alternative policy options and competing interests in any given case, the question of resilience for whom and for what is ever present (Armitage and Johnson 2006).”
The role of diversification in dynamic small-scale fisheries: Lessons from Baja California Sur, Mexico (2015, background): “…world are becoming increasingly connected across scales vis-a-vis processes such as climate change and globalization, and thus, becoming more vulnerable to external drivers of change (Adger et al., 2005; Armitage and Johnson, 2006; Berkes et al., 2006; Kittinger et al., 2013; Perry et al., 2011).”