Nightingale, Andrea
- University of Edinburgh
Abstract
The concept of resilience in ecology has been expanded into a framework to analyse human-environment dynamics. The extension of resilience notions to society has important limits, particularly its conceptualization of social change. The paper argues that this stems from the lack of attention to normative and epistemological issues underlying the notion of 'social resilience'. We suggest that critically examining the role of knowledge at the intersections between social and environmental dynamics helps to address normative questions and to capture how power and competing value systems are not external to, but rather integral to the development and functioning of SES.
Keywords
environmental change; human-environment; knowledge; power; resilience; social theory
Published in
Progress in Human Geography
2012, volume: 36, number: 4, pages: 475-489
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132511425708
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/89337