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The Resilience Alliance has developed two workbooks for assessing resilience
in social-ecological systems:
1) Assessing and managing resilience in social-ecological systems: A practitioners
workbook
2) Assessing resilience in social-ecological systems - A workbook for scientists
Both workbooks have been through a testing and review process and
are now available to download and use (see below).
The Workbook Project is an on-going effort with scheduled workshops, a developing
database of examples, proposals for the creation of additional, thematically-based
workbooks (e.g., a resilience assessment for coral reef systems), and the development
of companion volumes with supplementary background information. Both workbooks
presented here will updated in the future, in response to feedback received
from those who use them, either in RA-organized workshops or on their own.
Decades of theoretical research and case study comparisons by members of the
Resilience Alliance and other researchers, have contributed to a better understanding
of the dynamics of complex social-ecological systems. A set of key concepts
underlying resilience thinking provide a framework for assessing the resilience
of natural resource systems and for considering management options to set the
system on a sustainable trajectory. The practitioners workbook has been developed
specifically to provide guidance to people engaged in natural resource management,
through a set of activities designed to explore system parameters and management
options for their own system of interest from a resilience perspective. A companion volume (Vol. 2) to the workbook for practitioners provides supplementary notes on the key concepts that are included in the assessment. The supplementary volume is still in a draft format but is being made available while work continues on its development.
The Resilience Assessment workbook for Scientists emerged from case-study comparisons
of regional SESs in the Resilience Alliance (Walker et al 2006), and builds
on an initial suggested framework (Walker et al 2002). It is intended as a guide
for those familiar with the basic concepts of resilience and systems dynamics.
CITATION FORMAT:
The Resilience Alliance. 2007. Assessing and managing resilience in social-ecological systems: A practitioners workbook. Volume 1, version 1.0. Available online [http://www.resalliance.org/3871.php].
The Resilience Alliance. 2007. Assessing resilience in social-ecological systems: A scientists workbook. Available online [http://www.resalliance.org/3871.php]. |
