Over rentmeesterschap in het publieke domein
Kian Goh | 2021, The MIT Press
An examination of urban climate change response strategies and the resistance to them by grassroots activists and social movements.
Cities worldwide are formulating plans to respond to climate change and adapt to its impact. Often, marginalized urban residents resist these plans, offering “counter plans” to protest unjust and exclusionary actions.
Lees verder “Form and Flow”Jack Kruf | April 2024 (update from August 2016)
What is resilience? Well, there is no simple answer to this. Especially not regarding that of the ecosystem of a city. The concept, you might say, is in development in different sciences and recently entered the public governance domain related to the social-ecological system of society.
Can resilience be measured as an indicator of an ecosystem’s state? How are the living and non-living factors of the measured system calculated? Can it create true insight into the tone of the city, society, and nature?
Vijf jaar onderzoek naar sociale veerkracht
Gemeente Rotterdam | maart 2024
In de Rotterdamse wijken Bospolder en Tussendijken heeft de afgelopen vif jaar een innovatieve vorm van wijkontwikkeling plaatsgevonden. Met het programma Veerkrachtig BoTu 2028 is ingezet op versterking van het sociaal kapitaal van de wijk om onder meer sociale en ruimtelijke problemen het hoofd te bieden, en om de wijk beter bestand te maken tegen toekomstige risico’s.
Hoe kan de wijk omgaan met een pandemie of met een energiecrisis? Hoe kan de wijk meer verantwoordelijkheid nemen? Welke vorm van bestuur past hierbij? En wat is de rol van de overheid? Hoe kan aanspraak gemaakt worden op specifieke vaardigheden van bewoners? En op welke manier bewaak je de continuiteit van zo’n system?
Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature
This book is about the invisible or subtle nature of food and farming and also about the nature of existence. Everything that we know (and do not know) about the physical world has a subtle counterpart which has been scarcely considered in modernist farming practice and research. Old wisdom meets new science: Agroecology. It puts system thinking renewed on the map.
This book contributes to the discipline of Subtle Agroecologies, a nexus of indigenous epistemologies, multidisciplinary advances in wave-based and ethereal studies, and the science of sustainable agriculture. Not a farming system in itself, Subtle Agroecologies superimposes a non-material dimension upon existing, materially-based agroecological farming systems.
Bringing together 43 authors from 12 countries and five continents, from the natural and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities, this multi-contributed book introduces the discipline, explaining its relevance and potential contribution to the field of Agroecology.
OECD | December 2023
Global warming is likely to reach 1.5°C as early as 2030, with current climate action falling short of meeting the Paris Agreement goals and a mounting risk of tipping beyond the ability of human societies to adapt.
Building on broader OECD work on climate, this report proposes a new OECD territorial climate indicator framework. It demonstrates that different territories have different potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, adapt to climate impacts, and address vulnerabilities.
Lees verder “Territorial Approach on Climate and Resilience”
HM Government, Cabinet Office | 2022
The professionalism and commitment of the people who contribute to the UK’s resilience is extraordinary, and we have a well-established framework for civil protection in the UK. But the last few years have exposed the need to build on these solid foundations and strengthen our resilience to prevent, mitigate, respond to and recover from the nation’s risks.
That is why the UK Government committed, in the Integrated Review, to a new Resilience Strategy: The UK Government Resilience Framework (pdf) or online. Lees verder “The UK Government Resilience Framework”
Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
Brian Walker and David Salt | 2006
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet’s well-being. The response from most quarters has been for “more of the same” that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency. It is published by Island Press.
“Resilience thinking” offers a different understanding of the world and a new resource management approach. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change. It seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced to achieve sustainability. It explains why greater efficiency alone cannot solve resource problems and offers a constructive alternative that opens up options rather than closing them down.
In Resilience Thinking, scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to the emerging paradigm of resilience. The book arose out of appeals from colleagues in science and industry for a plainly written account of what resilience is all about and how a resilience approach differs from current practices.
Rather than a complicated theory, the book offers a conceptual overview and five case studies of resilience thinking in the real world. It is an engaging and essential work for anyone interested in managing risk in a complex world.
Bibliography
Walker, B. and Salt, D. (2006) Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World. Washington, D.C., United States: Island Press
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