Collaborative Resilience

by Goldstein, Bruce Evan; Armitage, Derek (CON); Arthur, Robert (CON); Bojorquez-Tapia, Luis A. (CON); Bullock, Ryan (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780262516457
• ISBN10: 0262516454
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-28
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

Crisis--whether natural disaster, technological failure, economic collapse, or shocking acts of violence--can offer opportunities for collaboration, consensus building, and transformative social change. Communities often experience a surge of collective energy and purpose in its aftermath. Rather than focus on typical government and private-sector efforts to deal with crises through increased prevention and mitigation measures, Collaborative Resilience explores the ways we can harness the postcrisis force for recovery and change before it is eclipsed by helplessness and hopelessness. The analyses and case studies examine how communities can develop "communicative resilience," building trust and interdependence to cultivate new forms of knowledge, identity, and governance. The book, which reflects recent work on resilience in the fields of planning and natural resource management, examines a wide range of approaches to collaboration in both theory and practice. The case studies describe communities from the United States to South Africa that have survived and even thrived through adaptive consensus building, transformative resilience, and the development of learning networks. These collaborative efforts include environmental assessment methods in Cozumel, Mexico; the governance of a "climate protected community" in the Blackfoot Valley of Montana; fisheries management in Southeast Asia's Mekong region; and the restoration of natural fire regimes in U.S. forests.

Author Biography

Bruce Evan Goldstein is Associate Professor in the Department of Planning and Design at the University of Colorado, Denver.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
About the Contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Crisis and Collaborative Resilience	p. 1
Understanding Collaboration	p. 17
Planning Resilient Communities: Insights from Experiences with Risky Technologies	p. 19
Leaping Forward: Building Resilience by Communicating Vulnerability	p. 39
Complex Systems, Anticipation, and Collaborative Planning for Resilience	p. 61
The Study of Slow	p. 99
Creating the Climate Change Resilient Community	p. 127
Collaborative Resilience Case Studies	p. 149
Reaching Consensus	p. 151
Conflict and Collaboration in Defining the "Desired State": The Case of Cozumel, Mexico	p. 153
Getting to Resilience in a Climate-Protected Community: Early Problem-Solving Choices, Ideas, and Governance Philosophy	p. 177
Collaborative Planning to Create a Network of Fisherfolk Organizations in the Caribbean	p. 207
Collective Transitions and Community Resilience in the Face of Enduring Trauma	p. 231
Advocating Change	p. 253
Fostering Collaborative Resilience through Adaptive Comanagement: Reconciling Theory and Practice in the Management of Fisheries in the Mekong Region	p. 255
Resilient Politics and a Place-Based Ethics of Care: Rethinking the City through the District Six Museum in Cape Town, South Africa	p. 283
Shadow Networks, Social Learning, and Collaborating through Crisis: Building Resilient Forest-Based Communities in Northern Ontario, Canada	p. 309
Collaborating for Transformative Resilience: Shared Identity in the U.S. Fire Learning Network	p. 339
Conclusion: Communicative Resilience	p. 359
Index	p. 373
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