"Meet the Laureate of the 2008 Volvo Environment Prize" - A video available from the Volvo Environment Prize website shows Buzz in his element on the water near his home in Nanaimo, B.C.. Buzz Holling will receive the Volvo Environment Prize in Sweden on 6 November. In addition to a special seminar organized by the Volvo Environment Prize on the 6th, a seminar on crisis and resilience will take place one day earlier at the Royal Academy of Sciences that will include presentations by former students and colleagues.

World Resources 2008 Roots of Resilience - Growing the Wealth of the Poor. The latest World Resources Report continues its focus on poverty and the environment while drawing on resilience thinking to provide new perspectives on scaling up environmental income for the poor. The report was published July 2008. More information can be found at WRI's website. For more announcements visit the RA's announcement's page here.

Institutions and Environmental Change: Principal Findings, Applications, and Research Frontiers Edited by Oran R. Young, Heike Schroeder and Leslie A. King, this book summarizes and reports the key findings of a decade of research on the role of institutions in addressing global environmental change. The international research project on the Institutional Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (IDGEC) was carried out under the auspices of the International Human Dimensions Programme. More information is on the MIT publishing website.

Radio Feature: Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times. Mark Sommer, host and executive producer of A World of Possibilities, interviewed scientists and researchers from around the world at the Resilience 2008 conference in Stockholm, Sweden. The 55minute long radio show can be heard online and includes interviews with Buzz Holling, Brian Walker, Carl Folke, Charles Redman, Will Steffan and Frances Westley. Their combined wisdom provides insight into how societies can become resilient in the face of traumatic change and unprecedented transition. World of Possibilities is an award-winning, nationally and internationally syndicated radio program, that is part of the Mainstream Media Project. The show’s website includes links to other guest interviews that were recorded at the conference.

Resilience Assessment Workbook Wiki - The resilience workbook wiki is a collaborative project involving researchers and practitioners who seek a holistic approach to managing social-ecological systems for long-term sustainbility. The workbook wiki is aimed at those who have experience applying resilience concepts to social-ecological systems and who want to share their knowledge by contributing to the on-going development of the resilience assessment guide. The workbook wiki is based on Version 1.0 of the Practitioner's workbook Assessing and Managing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems. Over the coming months new modules and examples will be contributed to the workbook wiki by a growing community of people who are doing resilience assessments in a variety of systems around the world. Visit the wiki main page to learn more - http://wiki.resalliance.org.

Resilience Assessment Workbooks - The RA has developed two workbooks for assessing resilience in social-ecological systems. "Assessing and managing resilience in social-ecological systems: A practitioners workbook" has been designed 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 second workbook "Assessing resilience in social-ecological systems - A workbook for scientists" emerged from case-study comparisons of regional SESs in the Resilience Alliance, and builds on an earlier framework. It is intended as a guide for those familiar with the basic concepts of resilience and systems dynamics. Access the workbooks here.

Join the RA's researcher database, submit your own profile, and search the database to find others working in your field. Anyone may submit their information for review and inclusion in the database. Database fields include: name, institution, position, country, geographic area of research, keywords, brief summary of research interests, and contact information.

Join the RA's email group for graduate students and post-docs doing resilience-related research. The email group is open to all graduate students/post-docs who are interested in discussing resilience research and sharing information on events, conferences, literature, etc. Read More.

Resilience Thinking A book by CSIRO scientist and RA Program Director Brian Walker and science writer David Salt provides an accessible introduction to resilience research and argues for a dramatic change in how natural resources are managed. The resilience framework is explored by way of five case studies that demonstrate how communities are better able to withstand cycles of change when ecological drivers are better understood and when natural change is embraced rather than controlled. Copies of the book can be ordered online from Island Press