1. Resilience Now 2. Development Policy Engagement with Resilience 3. Resilience Across Disciplines 4. Exploring Experiential Resilience 5. Adaptation in a Changing Climate 6. Traps and Transformations: The Resilience of Poverty 7. Re-visioning Resilience: Resistance, Rootedness and Resourcefulness
Biography
Katrina Brown is Professor of Social Sciences at the Environment and Sustainability Institute at the University of Exeter, based in Cornwall in the UK. She has a strong commitment to interdisciplinary analysis of, and innovative approaches to, environmental change and international development.
It was rewarding to read a book that discusses and illustrates resilience from so many perspectives. Researchers, students, policymakers and practitioners concerned with global change will appreciate Katrina Brown's re-visioning of resilience as an opportunity to collectively negotiate and influence current and future sustainabilities.
Professor Karen O'Brien, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo
This book provides an examination of the rise of resilience as a cross-disciplinary concept and framework within global development. The political ecology approach taken through the book provides a critical examination that links with contemporary debates in policy and practice around poverty and climate change. Populated with illuminating case studies, this is essential reading for anyone interested in truly sustainable development goals.
Dr Thomas Tanner, Head of Adaptation and Resilience, Overseas Development Institute (ODI), UK
With its bountiful exhibits of 18 figures, 28 tables, 18 text boxes, a useful glossary and hundreds of up to date and relevant references, this book is a crucial resource for lecturers and new resilience scholars... Books such as Resilience, Development and Global Change add value to knowledge in ways that tweets, brief journal papers and rambling websites will never be able to do. Just read it.
Christo Fabricius, Sustainability Research Unit Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
