Table 1. Possible uses of Resilience Thinking as a framework of inter-related concepts (modified from Fazey 2005).
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Uses |
Explanation |
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Prediction |
To help make decisions about the likely outcome of a course of action (e.g.
using concepts of adaptive cycles to help understand when to target
interventions to transform the trajectory of a social-ecological
system). |
Explanation |
To help suggest why something occurs (e.g. understanding regime shifts or
crossing thresholds). |
Identify key questions |
For research and/or practice. |
Facilitate design |
To help form a plan or scheme to reduce vulnerability of a system to
externally induced change. |
Communicate |
To convey knowledge and ideas between researchers and/or
practitioners. |
Motivate/Engage |
To increase broad interest in social and ecological issues. |
Guide practice |
To help develop new policies. |
Conceptual change |
To help facilitate the way people view social-ecological systems (e.g.
through the lens of resilience that sees social-ecological systems as
dynamically complex and where, in addition to efficiency, innovation and
flexibility are important). |
Development of higher order thinking |
Subject of focus for teaching that facilitates development of more
sophisticated cognition. |
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