Wed, January 28, 2015 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UBC Point Grey Campus. Free. Oecologies: The Histories of Sustainability
The Politics of Panarchy
Karen Bakker, Geography, UBC
5-6:30 pm, Coach House, Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
Resilience has emerged as one of the key concepts in contemporary sustainability debates. The rapidly growing appeal of the concept of resilience across a broad range of disciplines has overshadowed the concept of “panarchy,” a cognate framework developed by ecologist Buzz Holling (then at UBC) and collaborators from the 1970s onwards. Holling seeks to provide an alternative explanatory framework for the source, pathways and roles of change and adaptation in socionatural systems.
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