Resilience Science

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The Resilience Science weblog is operated by Garry Peterson, an assisstant professor jointly appointed in Geography and the School of the Environment at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It was started in early 2005 by Garry Peterson and Marco Janssen as an experiment to communicate recent work by and of interest to those interested in resilience in social ecological systems.

Currently its contributors are members of Resilience Alliance, a research network of scientists and practitioners from many disciplines who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems. The Resilience Alliance works to develop a practical theoretical foundation for a sustainable civilization. The Resilience Alliance develops sustainability science along three paths:

  • Contributing toward theoretical advances in the dynamics of complex adaptive systems
  • Supporting rigorous testing of theory via: participatory regional case-studies, adaptive management, minimal-modelling, and the use of scenarios and other qualitative modelling tools.
  • Developing guidelines and principles that will enable others to assess the resilience of coupled human-natural systems and develop policy and management tools that support sustainable development
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