Journal
SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES
Volume 23, Issue 12, Pages 1135-1149Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/08941921003652940
Keywords
agency; climate change; complexity theory; global environmental crisis; resilience; sustainability
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This article presents an inquiry into prospects for application of the conceptual lens of resilience to social systems. The dominant paradigm of sustainability in its current form is likely to be of limited utility for aiding scholars to contribute to our understanding of past and current global environmental crises, and for planning for such events in the future. Resilience theory offers a compelling source of theoretical insight; however, the current iteration of this framework is not readily applicable to social systems. Our ability to do so requires further theoretical development in the areas of system complexity and agency. This article offers an initial step in this direction, by providing an overview and critique of recent academic treatments of the concept of resilience, and a set of guideposts for further research.
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