Community resilience for a 1.5 degrees C world
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In: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Vol. 31, 04.2018, p. 30-40.
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T1 - Community resilience for a 1.5 degrees C world
AU - Fazey, Ioan
AU - Carmen, Esther
AU - Chapin III, F. Stuart
AU - Ross, Helen
AU - Rao-Williams, Jennifer
AU - Lyon, Christopher
AU - Connon, Irena
AU - Searle, Beverley
AU - Knox, Katharine
N1 - no funding info
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - Ten essentials are presented for community resilience initiatives in the context of achieving a 1.5 °C world: enhance adaptability; take account of shocks and stresses; work horizontally across issues; work vertically across social scales; aggressively reduce carbon emissions; build narratives about climate change; engage directly with futures; focus on climate disadvantage; focus on processes and pathways; and encourage transformations for resilience. Together the essentials highlight that resilience initiatives seeking to retain the status quo will be detrimental when they enable societies to cling to unsustainable activities. Instead, climate resilience initiatives need to be viewed more as a process of transformative social change, where learning, power, inequities and relationships matter. Finally, there is an urgent need for researchers to shift focus away from examining the nature of resilience to accelerating learning about fostering resilience in practice.
AB - Ten essentials are presented for community resilience initiatives in the context of achieving a 1.5 °C world: enhance adaptability; take account of shocks and stresses; work horizontally across issues; work vertically across social scales; aggressively reduce carbon emissions; build narratives about climate change; engage directly with futures; focus on climate disadvantage; focus on processes and pathways; and encourage transformations for resilience. Together the essentials highlight that resilience initiatives seeking to retain the status quo will be detrimental when they enable societies to cling to unsustainable activities. Instead, climate resilience initiatives need to be viewed more as a process of transformative social change, where learning, power, inequities and relationships matter. Finally, there is an urgent need for researchers to shift focus away from examining the nature of resilience to accelerating learning about fostering resilience in practice.
KW - Environmental planning
KW - Sustainability Governance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85038869465&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.12.006
DO - 10.1016/j.cosust.2017.12.006
M3 - Scientific review articles
VL - 31
SP - 30
EP - 40
JO - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
JF - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
SN - 1877-3435
ER -