Resilience Thinking

Author: Brian Walker PhD
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B005LB8J42

Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. Download Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency.



"Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change, and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability. It explains why greater efficiency by itself Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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