Social traumas, community building, ecological thinking, solidarity

Applying resilience thinking Seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems

Community Cooperation and Social Solidarity A Case Study of Community Initiated Strategic Planning

Building capacity for resilience in social- ecological systems

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Adaptive comanagement for building resilience in social-ecological systems.

Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems that require flexible governance with the ability to respond to environmental feedback. We present, through examples from Sweden and Canada, the development of adaptive comanagement systems, showing how local groups self-organize, learn, and actively adapt to and shape change with social networks that connect institutions and organizations across levels a...

Social and Ecological Responsibility: A Critical Systemic Perspective Stream 13: OR/Systems Thinking for Social Improvement

The notion of systemic thinking for social and ecological responsibility is deconstructed and its holistic potential examined from a critical systemic perspective informed by the ideas of the systems philosopher, C. West-Churchman. Systemic thinking involves being critically aware of the boundaries in which we work and the boundaries to which we apply our expertise. It involves making boundary ...