Resilience, Development and Global Change - Brown Katrina
Resilience, Development and Global Change - Brown Katrina Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a normative goal in fields as diverse as the…
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Resilience, Development and Global Change - Brown Katrina
Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a normative goal in fields as diverse as the economy, national security, personal development and well-being. The book critically analyzes the multiple meanings and applications of resilience ideas in contemporary society and to suggests where, how and why resilience might cause us to re-think global change and development, and how this new approach might be operationalized.The book shows how current policy discourses on resilience promote business-as-usual rather than radical responses to change. Resilience thinking provides a framework for understanding dynamics of complex, inter-connected social, ecological and economic systems.
These challenges are characterized by high But it argues that resilience can help understand and respond to the challenges of the contemporary age.