Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions

Wilson, Geoff A.

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“…Ostrom (2008), Buikstra et al (2010) and Wilson (2012a) have highlighted that key for understanding resilience at community level is to understand the complex interplay between various 'domains' that characterise socio-ecological systems. While there is considerable debate about what is needed for 'resilient' communities (see in particular Adger, 2000;Cumming et al, 2006), most authors tend to agree that resilience and vulnerability can be understood as a spectrum, i.e.…”

Section: Understanding Key Factors Affecting Community Resiliencementioning

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“…While there is considerable debate about what is needed for 'resilient' communities (see in particular Adger, 2000;Cumming et al, 2006), most authors tend to agree that resilience and vulnerability can be understood as a spectrum, i.e. that a resilient system always has 'positive' attributes while a vulnerable system tends to be dominated by 'negative' attributes (Adger, 2000;Folke, 2006;Wilson, 2012a). This means that well developed economic, institutional, social, cultural and natural domains are crucial for resilient communities.…”

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“…In addition, it is assumed that community pathways can never be fully resilient as some domains will always tend to be more weakly developed than others (Cutter et al, 2008;Ostrom, 2008). This emphasises that factors affecting community resilience are non-linear, interlinked in complex ways, and cumulative (Davidson, 2010;Wilson, 2012a). Many studies highlight how economic factors influence both community resilience and land degradation processes, suggesting that they are among the most important at community level (Pretty, 2002;Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005;Gray and Moseley, 2005;Oudenhoven et al, 2011).…”

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“…The statement above, which emerged from a collective exercise to develop a theoretically and empirically-based definition of community resilience, encapsulates the idea that if a community has the right set of skills, knowledge and tools, and knows how to use them, it can make informed choices about the resources that it has access to, enabling it to thrive and persist (Adger, 2000;Wilson, 2012a). Critically, the definition above also highlights the difference between community resilience and sustainability.…”

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“…Building on previous studies that have adopted wide-ranging conceptual frameworks on the key drivers affecting resilience at community level (Ostrom, 2008;Magis, 2009;Buikstra et al, 2010;Wilson, 2012a), this study will focus on how these factors enable communities experiencing land and forest degradation to adapt and adjust decision-making pathways towards resilience. The focus community is Gorgoglione Municipality (Basilicata, southern Italy), a community characterised by a mixture of agricultural and forest landscapes prone to several degradation issues.…”

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Community resilience and land degradation in forest and shrubland socio-ecological systems: Evidence from Gorgoglione, Basilicata, Italy

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Assessing the resilience of communities is assuming greater importance at a time of global economic upheaval, climatic and socio-demographic change. The past 10-15 years have seen a significant increase in the number of studies addressing resilience issues at community level from a variety of perspectives, and although the resilience of communities in dealing with disturbances feature strongly in these studies, less work appears to have been undertaken at the interface between community resilience and land degradation. In addition, little attention has been paid to land degradation, desertification risk and community resilience at the forest-community interface, despite the fact that forest ecosystems represent one of the most important terrestrial biomes in terms of the ecosystem services and socioeconomic benefits that they provide. Building on existing community resilience literature, which highlights the importance of various socio-economic and political drivers for understanding community resilience, this study analyses how economic, institutional, social, cultural and natural factors at community level affect the ability of communities to adapt and adjust decision-making pathways towards resilience. The study focuses on the municipality of Gorgoglione (Basilicata, Italy), a typical Mediterranean forest and shrubland socioecological system characterised by a mixture of agricultural and forest landscapes, and prone to land degradation issues linked to both anthropogenic (deforestation, overgrazing, forest fires) and natural (soil erosion, droughts, climate aridity) causes. A case study approach is used, drawing on quantitative and qualitative data across spatial levels and temporal scales to examine the complex interrelationships between community resilience, forest ecosystems and land degradation.

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Section: Understanding Key Factors Affecting Community Resiliencementioning

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Section: Understanding Key Factors Affecting Community Resiliencementioning

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Conclusion: The discipline of river science

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Since geography was founded as a university subject in the late nineteenth century, geographers have defined their research and teaching with reference to nature, explicitly or implicitly. At times, nature has been absolutely central to what most geographers do; at other times, less so. After 1945, concerns about the credibility and utility of geographers' pre‐war inquiries led to a progressive split between human and physical geography, with the former largely losing interest in the biophysical environment and in questions of “human nature.” However, since the early 1990s a preoccupation with nature has, in a range of ways and for various reasons, become quite central to research and teaching across the discipline. This has not, however, led to a new unity among physical and human geographers. Whether this state of affairs is good or not is a matter of perspective. Today, three broad approaches to nature prevail in the discipline, each comprising multiple strands: a “traditional” (or naturalist) one that regards nature as an independent object of analysis, a more recent one that questions nature's naturalness, and a newer one that would dispense with the concept of nature (and its collateral terms, like wilderness) altogether. The second and third we can call “denaturalizing” approaches. This trio reflects geographers' different conceptions of the character and aims of knowledge about the material world. The differences cannot – some might argue should not – be eliminated in the quest for an ostensibly “correct” understanding of nature and its relations with society. If our knowledge of what we call “nature” is profoundly social , then it follows that its validity cannot be justified with reference to “material realities” alone. This is not, of course, to suggest that there is no biophysical world existing regardless of people's diverse conceptions of it. After defining “nature,” the entry is organized chronologically and charts the changing ways geographers have interrogated nature over the past century or more. It concludes by considering the relationship between the three just‐mentioned approaches.

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Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions

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Community resilience and land degradation in forest and shrubland socio-ecological systems: Evidence from Gorgoglione, Basilicata, Italy

Community resilience and land degradation in forest and shrubland socio-ecological systems: Evidence from Gorgoglione, Basilicata, Italy

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