{"id":26777,"date":"2017-10-12T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26777"},"modified":"2017-10-12T18:58:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T23:58:05","slug":"introduction-to-the-community-resilience-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26777","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to The Community Resilience Reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single-title\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postcarbon.org\/introduction-to-the-community-resilience-reader\/\">Introduction to <em>The Community Resilience Reader<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"long-description\">\n<p><em>We\u2019re pleased to announce the publication of our latest book, <strong>The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval<\/strong>, edited by Daniel Lerch and published with Island Press. Here is the Introduction chapter, which explains why we\u2019ve produced this important new collection of essays.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For over thirty years, the world community has tried to resolve the combined challenges of environmental degradation, fossil fuel dependence, economic inequality, and persistent social injustice\u2014largely under the banner of internationally brokered \u201csustainable development.\u201d Despite some partial successes, it is clear today that the pace of these global trends has not been slowed, let alone stopped or reversed. Their scale has grown and their impacts have become so widespread that they now threaten the stability\u2014in some cases even the existence\u2014of communities around the world. The global sustainability challenges of the past have become the local resilience crises of today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Resilience<\/em> is the ability of a system\u2014like a family, or a country, or Earth\u2019s biosphere\u2014to cope with short-term disruptions and adapt to long-term changes without losing its essential character. We depend on the resilience of all the systems that support us for life and well-being; if these systems falter, we suffer. A <em>crisis<\/em> is an unstable state of affairs in which decisive change is both necessary and inevitable. Today we face four major crises\u2014environmental, energy, economic, and equity\u2014that threaten to overwhelm the resilience of the systems we care about, particularly at the local level.<\/p>\n<p>The failure of international sustainability efforts to thwart these crises means resilience-building efforts at the community level\u2014working on all issues and systems, not just climate change and infrastructure\u2014are needed more than ever. But the charge to build community resilience raises important questions: Resilience <em>of<\/em> what, exactly? Resilient <em>to<\/em> what, exactly? Building resilience <em>how<\/em>, and benefiting <em>whom<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction to The Community Resilience Reader We\u2019re pleased to announce the publication of our latest book, The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch and published with Island Press. Here is the Introduction chapter, which explains why we\u2019ve produced this important new collection of essays. 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