resilience

Question 1

What is resilience?

Answer 1

The ability to take a lick and keep an ticking

No collapes, but keep on functioning

Question 2

History

Answer 2

Introduced by Holling (1973) as an ecological concept

Question 3

Now…

Answer 3

Increasingly studied as socio-ecological resilience

Wildfire:
How, why, ecosystems, …
humans effected, …

Question 4

Adaptive Cycle Theory

Answer 4

4 Phases
2 main concepts: reorganization and Destruction

New curve: growth & collapse is shown

Question 5

R Phase

Answer 5

• cheap abundant (lots of) ressources
• felixibility (generalised economics)
• no need for efficiency
• low density (early colonial)
• small population

Question 6

K Phase

Answer 6

• Ressources are locked up (less and more expensicve)
• stonger sonnection
• loss innovataion/flexibility
• rigid
• advanced societies (more population)
• environment has adopted to humans as much as possible

Question 7

Omega Phase

Answer 7

• collapse of society
• certain threshhold is reached
• release of resources (investments, human capital, ..)

Question 8

Alpha Phase

Answer 8

• beginning of reorganisation
• with the ne resources of Omega phase

Question 9

The fall…..

Answer 9

Humans initially adapt themselves to their environment and its variable nature.
But long-term societal needs are best served by modifying the environment to suit aur needs.
Thus, more complex societies are less able to whithstand shocks from the natural world.
Which is more prone to abrupt changes and extreme events due to the modification!

Question 10

Humans and the environment

Answer 10

We aren’t going to stop modifying our environment
But we CAN make choices about how we modify it

We want to stay in the K phase and avoid going to the omega phase

Question 11

Three Key to resilience

Answer 11

diversity
redundancy
connectivity

(all help make more flexible (no more collapse))

Question 12

Diversity

Answer 12

different roles:
- biodiversity (species with differnt roles)
social diversity (people from differnt backrounds bring different ideas)
- economic diversity (industry in one city)

Question 13

Redundancy

Answer 13

sompanies fill the same role (more from the same, one missiong doesn’t matter)
ex.: social aid, local help –> provde the same service

Question 14

Connectivity

Answer 14

transport of resources (ideas, material, lands, …)
–> flor of ressources
early warning systems (hazards)

Question 15

resilience

Answer 15

We need balance of all! (Don’t want too much of any)

Diversitiy less, Redundancy less, connectivity up

Choise comes back to us humans

Question 16

How can we learn what a resilient society looks like?

Answer 16

What have other societies done?
- normadic societies
- planting not only the best plants
- famine –> transport to avoide

Need to remember human agency