Resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation

Abstract

ABSTRACT. In 2014, the Third International Conference on the resilience of social-ecological systems chose the theme "resilience and development: mobilizing for transformation." The conference aimed specifically at fostering an encounter between the experiences and thinking focused on the issue of resilience through a social and ecological system perspective, and the experiences focused on the issue of resilience through a development perspective. In this perspectives piece, we reflect on the outcomes of the meeting and document the differences and similarities between the two perspectives as discussed during the conference, and identify bridging questions designed to guide future interactions. After the conference, we read the documents (abstracts, PowerPoints) that were prepared and left in the conference database by the participants (about 600 contributions), and searched the web for associated items, such as videos, blogs, and tweets from the conference participants. All of these documents were assessed through one lens: what do they say about resilience and development? Once the perspectives were established, we examined different themes that were significantly addressed during the conference. Our analysis paves the way for new collective developments on a set of issues: (1) Who declares/assign/cares for the resilience of what, of whom? (2) What are the models of transformations and how do they combine the respective role of agency and structure? (3) What are the combinations of measurement and assessment processes? (4) At what scale should resilience be studied? Social transformations and scientific approaches are coconstructed. For the last decades, development has been conceived as a modernization process supported by scientific rationality and technical expertise. The definition of a new perspective on development goes with a negotiation on a new scientific approach. Resilience is presently at the center of this negotiation on a new science for development.

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“…The suggested, more explicit focus on wicked forms of resilience could become an important interface between the strong but insufficiently connected resilience and transformation debates. Transformation has become a central theme in the debate on sustainable human-nature relations (Westley et al, 2011(Westley et al, , 2013O'Brien and Barnett, 2013;Bousquet et al, 2016). In line with this, Brian Walker, recently proposed (2014 reported in Bousquet et al, 2016) that social-ecological feedbacks can lead to undesirable and strongly resilient features.…”

“…Transformation has become a central theme in the debate on sustainable human-nature relations (Westley et al, 2011(Westley et al, , 2013O'Brien and Barnett, 2013;Bousquet et al, 2016). In line with this, Brian Walker, recently proposed (2014 reported in Bousquet et al, 2016) that social-ecological feedbacks can lead to undesirable and strongly resilient features. That breaking such "wicked" forms of resilience at multiple levels is needed to move toward global sustainability has been implicit at least since Rockström et al (2009) so effectively kindled the debate on planetary boundaries.…”

“…For social networks, institutions, communities and other social units, resilience is characterized by the capacity to self-organize, and also by levels and quality of social capital (trust, norms, and networks), economic capital (wealth, income, savings, and investment) and human capital (education, health, skills, knowledge, and information) (Olsson et al, 2004;Lebel et al, 2006). Bousquet et al (2016) call for "development resilience" including "household resilience to food insecurity or climate change" to support capacity building to withstand multiple shocks and to cross poverty traps" (Cinner, 2011). For the oceans, the Sustainable Development Goal 14 calls to "protect marine ecosystems.…”

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“…In addition to that, adaptive cycle of social resilience seems to increase potential and connectedness of social ecological resilience (Gunderson and Holling, 2002). In many cases, exploitation has been led to conservation, while conserved environment than released and reorganization to provide sustainability of environmental services (Bousquet, et al, 2016).…”

“…Hence, eco-politics in the form of development of human ecology study started to make its root (Soerjani, 1987). Bousquet, et al (2016) has stated that resilience is built on dynamic perspective: Development resilience started with a static view looking at resilience through attributes (endowment, capital, capacity) but is moving toward a dynamic approach. In this paper, social resilience is a concept built upon dynamic social condition.…”