November 2011
6x9, 376 pp., 8 illus., 4 maps 14 charts, 1 figure
$28.00/£19.95 (PAPER)
Short
ISBN-10: 0-262-51645-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51645-7
6x9, 376 pp., 8 illus., 4 maps 14 charts, 1 figure
$28.00/£19.95 (PAPER)
Short
ISBN-10: 0-262-51645-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-51645-7
Endorsements
“Collaborative Resilience helps us understand why and how communities facing violence, natural hazards, and resource decline can adapt and transform, even in the face of terrible trauma. Vulnerable communities do not just 'bounce back'; they must find ways of building trust and structuring cooperation. Drawing on examples from Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America, Goldstein and his co-authors show us how collaborative interaction, when facilitated properly, can create safe spaces in which assumptions and relationships can be revised, reframed, and restored.”
--Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT
“Bruce Goldstein and colleagues provide scholarly, yet humane, insights into human resilience. In an age of continuing calamities, this volume provides important lessons on how we collectively survive, adapt, and transform to social and ecological crises.”
--Lance H. Gunderson, Professor of Environmental Studies, Emory University
“Collaborative Resilience is a book of stories of communities reacting to deep, stressful events and designing collaborative ways to be resilient to future ones. It is gentle and insightful. It is imbued with both social and natural science discoveries of ways to be collaborative and flexible, rather than efficient and rigid. It is excellent.”
--C.S. (Buzz) Holling, Resilience Alliance
“Collaborative Resilience helps us understand why and how communities facing violence, natural hazards, and resource decline can adapt and transform, even in the face of terrible trauma. Vulnerable communities do not just 'bounce back'; they must find ways of building trust and structuring cooperation. Drawing on examples from Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America, Goldstein and his co-authors show us how collaborative interaction, when facilitated properly, can create safe spaces in which assumptions and relationships can be revised, reframed, and restored.”
--Lawrence Susskind, Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, MIT
“Bruce Goldstein and colleagues provide scholarly, yet humane, insights into human resilience. In an age of continuing calamities, this volume provides important lessons on how we collectively survive, adapt, and transform to social and ecological crises.”
--Lance H. Gunderson, Professor of Environmental Studies, Emory University
“Collaborative Resilience is a book of stories of communities reacting to deep, stressful events and designing collaborative ways to be resilient to future ones. It is gentle and insightful. It is imbued with both social and natural science discoveries of ways to be collaborative and flexible, rather than efficient and rigid. It is excellent.”
--C.S. (Buzz) Holling, Resilience Alliance
About
Crisis—whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence— can offer opportunities for collaboration, consensus building, and transformative social change. Communities often experience a surge of collective energy and purpose in the aftermath of crisis. Rather than rely on government and private-sector efforts to deal with crises through prevention and mitigation, we can harness post-crisis forces for recovery and change through innovative collaborative planning.
Drawing on recent work in the fields of planning and natural resource management, this book examines a range of efforts to enhance resilience through collaboration, describing communities that have survived and even thrived by building trust and interdependence. These collaborative efforts include environmental assessment methods in Cozumel, Mexico; the governance of a “climate protected community” in the Blackfoot Valley of Montana; fisheries management in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region; and the restoration of natural fire regimes in U.S. forests.
In addition to describing the many forms that collaboration can take—including consensus processes, learning networks, and truth and reconciliation commissions— the authors argue that collaborative resilience requires redefining the idea of resilience itself. A resilient system is not just discovered through good science; it emerges as a community debates and defines ecological and social features of the system and appropriate scales of activity. Poised between collaborative practice and resilience analysis, collaborative resilience is both a process and an outcome of collective engagement with social-ecological complexity.
About the Editor
Bruce Evan Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Design at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Drawing on recent work in the fields of planning and natural resource management, this book examines a range of efforts to enhance resilience through collaboration, describing communities that have survived and even thrived by building trust and interdependence. These collaborative efforts include environmental assessment methods in Cozumel, Mexico; the governance of a “climate protected community” in the Blackfoot Valley of Montana; fisheries management in Southeast Asia’s Mekong region; and the restoration of natural fire regimes in U.S. forests.
In addition to describing the many forms that collaboration can take—including consensus processes, learning networks, and truth and reconciliation commissions— the authors argue that collaborative resilience requires redefining the idea of resilience itself. A resilient system is not just discovered through good science; it emerges as a community debates and defines ecological and social features of the system and appropriate scales of activity. Poised between collaborative practice and resilience analysis, collaborative resilience is both a process and an outcome of collective engagement with social-ecological complexity.
About the Editor
Bruce Evan Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Design at the University of Colorado, Denver.
Contributors
Derek Armitage
Robert Arthur
Luis A. Bojorquez-Tapia
Ryan Bullock
William Hale Butler
Jana Carp
Frank Dukes
Hallie Eakin
Richard Friend
Bruce Evan Goldstein
Charles J. Hoch
Sanda Kaufman
Steven Kelban
Melissa Marschke
Patrick McConney
Bruce Mitchell
Connie Ozawa
John Randolph
Karen E. Till
Edward Weber
Eric Welch
Jill Williams
Moira Zellner
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Contributors
1 Introduction: Crisis and Collaborative Resilience
Bruce Evan Goldstein
Part I: Understanding Collaboration
2 Planning Resilient Communities: Insights from Experiences with Risky Technologies
Connie P. Ozawa
3 Leaping Forward: Building Resilience by Communicating Vulnerability
Moira L. Zellner, Charles J. Hoch, and Eric W. Welch
4 Complex Systems, Anticipation, and Collaborative Planning for Resilience
Sandra Kaufman
5 The Study of Slow
Jana Carp
6 Creating the Climate Change Resilient Community
John Randolph
Part II: Collaborative Resilience Case Studies
A. Reaching Consensus
7 Conflict and Collaboration in Defining the “Desired State”: The Case of Cozumel, Mexico
Luis A. Bojórquez-Tapia and Hallie Eakin
8 Getting to Resilience in a Climate-Protected Community: Early Problem-Solving Choices, Ideas, and Governance Philosophy
Edward P. Weber
9 Collaborative Planning to Create a Network of Fisherfolk Organizations in the Caribbean
Patrick McConney and Terrence Phillips
10 Collective Transitions and Community Resilience in the Face of Enduring Trauma
E. Franklin Dukes, Jill Williams, and Steven Kelban
B. Advocating Change
11 Fostering Collaborative Resilience Through Adaptive Co-management: Reconciling Theory and Practice in the Management of Fisheries in the Mekong Region
Robert Arthur, Richard Friend, and Melissa Marschke
12 Resilient Politics and a Place-Based Ethics of Care: Rethinking the City through the District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa
Karen E. Till
13 Shadow Networks, Social Learning, and Collaborating through Crisis: Building Resilient Forest-based Communities in Northern Ontario,Canada
Ryan Bullock, Derek Armitage, and Bruce Mitchell
14 Collaborating for Transformative Resilience: Shared Identity in the U.S. Fire Learning Network
Bruce Evan Goldstein and William Hale Butler
15 Conclusion: Communicative Resilience
Bruce Evan Goldstein
Index
About the Contributors
1 Introduction: Crisis and Collaborative Resilience
Bruce Evan Goldstein
Part I: Understanding Collaboration
2 Planning Resilient Communities: Insights from Experiences with Risky Technologies
Connie P. Ozawa
3 Leaping Forward: Building Resilience by Communicating Vulnerability
Moira L. Zellner, Charles J. Hoch, and Eric W. Welch
4 Complex Systems, Anticipation, and Collaborative Planning for Resilience
Sandra Kaufman
5 The Study of Slow
Jana Carp
6 Creating the Climate Change Resilient Community
John Randolph
Part II: Collaborative Resilience Case Studies
A. Reaching Consensus
7 Conflict and Collaboration in Defining the “Desired State”: The Case of Cozumel, Mexico
Luis A. Bojórquez-Tapia and Hallie Eakin
8 Getting to Resilience in a Climate-Protected Community: Early Problem-Solving Choices, Ideas, and Governance Philosophy
Edward P. Weber
9 Collaborative Planning to Create a Network of Fisherfolk Organizations in the Caribbean
Patrick McConney and Terrence Phillips
10 Collective Transitions and Community Resilience in the Face of Enduring Trauma
E. Franklin Dukes, Jill Williams, and Steven Kelban
B. Advocating Change
11 Fostering Collaborative Resilience Through Adaptive Co-management: Reconciling Theory and Practice in the Management of Fisheries in the Mekong Region
Robert Arthur, Richard Friend, and Melissa Marschke
12 Resilient Politics and a Place-Based Ethics of Care: Rethinking the City through the District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa
Karen E. Till
13 Shadow Networks, Social Learning, and Collaborating through Crisis: Building Resilient Forest-based Communities in Northern Ontario,Canada
Ryan Bullock, Derek Armitage, and Bruce Mitchell
14 Collaborating for Transformative Resilience: Shared Identity in the U.S. Fire Learning Network
Bruce Evan Goldstein and William Hale Butler
15 Conclusion: Communicative Resilience
Bruce Evan Goldstein
Index