By Fikret Berkes, Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, Carl Folke
Drawing on complicated structures idea, this e-book investigates how human societies care for swap in associated social-ecological structures, and construct capability to conform to alter. the idea that of resilience is significant during this context. Resilient social-ecological structures have the capability to maintain improvement in a way that doesn't bring about lack of destiny strategies. Resilient platforms supply means for renewal and innovation within the face of fast transformation and challenge. Case experiences and examples from a number of geographic parts, cultures and source forms are incorporated; merging vanguard examine from traditional sciences, social sciences and the arts into an leading edge framework for sustainable platforms.
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It can be best understood by the use of a multiplicity of perspectives. These considerations provide an insight into the reasons that conventional scientific and technological approaches to resource and ecosystem management are not working well, and in some cases making problems worse. In part, this failure is related to the focus on wrong kinds of sustainability and on narrow types of scientific practice (Holling, Berkes, and Folke, 1998). In part, it is related to the ideology of a strongly positivist resource management science, with its emphasis on centralized institutions and command-and-control resource management.
Ecological practices and social mechanisms for building resilience and sustainability. In Linking Social and Ecological Systems, pp. 414–36, ed. F. Berkes and C. Folke. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Folke, C. and Colding, J. 2001. Traditional conservation practices. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity 5: 681–93. , Pritchard, L. , and Svedin, U. 1998b. The problem of fit between ecosystems and institutions. IHDP Working Paper 2. Bonn: International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change.
Six of these integrative areas are directly relevant to the perspectives of this volume: environmental ethics, political ecology, environmental history, ecological economics, common property, and traditional ecological knowledge. We describe each briefly here because many of the chapters in this volume borrow from the approaches and terminology of these fields. Environmental ethics arose from the need to develop a philosophy of relations between humans and their environment, because conventional ethics only applied to relations among people.