Panarchy in Social and Ecological Systems
Written by Dave Key   
Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:01

Many of our current technological and institutional responses to climate change are actually making us less resilient to coping with it.

This fascinating academic paper on 'Panarchy' and complex systems suggests that the more interconnected and efficient a system is, the less capacity it has to cope with change - turning contemporary approaches to building social resilience on their head...

http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art15/

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