In planning for the Roundtable, here at the Island Institute we did a lot of reading. We wanted to know what was already out there on the subject of resilience and identify different threads and perspectives we should try to bring into the conversation. To that end, we started gathering a community resilience resource library on our website. It is by no means complete, and we are currently in the process of gathering more ideas from Roundtable Core members and Participants.
We’d like your help as well. Have any sort of resource–books, articles, websites, organizations, songs, podcasts, exercises–you’d like to share? Please include it in the comments below!
The other resilience resource we’d like to share are the three articles sent out to Roundtable members for reading prior to the gathering. We felt these articles broadly addressed resilience theory’s history and present understanding. A very quick introduction for the group, but one we hope was helpful to ground the Roundtable members. Have feedback on the articles? Please let us know in the comments!
“Crash Course in Resilience” by Sarah van Gelder, posted in YES Magazine (you can also take YES Magazine’s Resilience Quiz)
“Resilience Ecologists Look to Nature For Strategies to Stay Afloat in Turbulent Times” by Mark Sommer, posted by InterPress Service
From Complex Regions to Complex Worlds by Buzz Holling (father of resiliency), posted by Ecology and Society
Again, please view the resilience library available on our website and give us your feedback! We aim to create a virtual library that will be useful in other towns and cities and planning committees.
here are some good books and articles that have influenced me and my thinking on reliance and what to do and how:
Local Dollars, Local Sense, by Michael Shuman (SCS has some extra copies if any one wants to borrow)
NYTimes article on transition towns: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/magazine/19town-t.html?pagewanted=all
Governing the Tongass– national forest conflict and decision making:
http://www.cfc.umt.edu/personnel/nie/Publication%20PDFs/Tongass.pdf
Blessed Unrest– Paul Hawken
Hunt, gather, cook blog: http://honest-food.net/
Being and Place Among the Tlingit– Thomas Thorton
Play to Win– Larry Wilson,Hersch Wilson
Leopold’s Shack and Rickett’s Lab: The Emergence of Environmentalism
– Michael J. Lannoo
Thanks for all of these Andrew! They’ve been added into the long resource list we’re collecting and will be sharing soon.
I found the 74-page pamphlet distributed at the Roundtable, Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations (April 2002) very helpful. Here are some links:
Complete pamphlet, 74 pages: http://www.sou.gov.se/mvb/pdf/resiliens.pdf
Pamphlet summary, 6 pages: http://www.sou.gov.se/mvb/pdf/206497_Resilienc.pdf
Also: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art12/
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