(3) About protecting human well-being within ongoing changes to the environment and human society
.... or designing a resilient social-ecological system
The resilience approach falls within the broad, emerging field of sustainability science, a research area that seeks to understand the interactions between nature and society in order to cope with pressing sustainability challenges.
Social-ecological resilience, the other name for evolutionary resilience, emphasises the way this concept grasp people and nature as interdependent systems.
Its necessary to mention that in social-ecological systems resilience can include the persistence of existing patterns which is not necessarily always a good thing, depending on how appropriate the patterns of organisation and behaviour are that we are ‘bouncing back to’. The resilience of some of the outdated systems we have created can actually resist transformative innovation and prolong patterns that are destructive.
