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Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for more of the same that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency. Resilience thinking offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change, and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability. It explains why greater efficiency by itself cannot solve resource problems and offers a constructive alternative that opens up options rather than closing them down. In Resilience Thinking, scientist Brian Walker and science writer David Salt present an accessible introduction to the emerging paradigm of resilience. The book arose out of appeals from colleagues in science and industry for a plainly written account of what resilience is all about and how a resilience approach differs from current practices. Rather than complicated theory, the book offers a conceptual overview along with five case studies of resilience thinking in the real world.

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Tom Bromhead is a uniquely international voice artist. He now lives in Los Angeles, but having grown up in Australia and England, as well as being a musician, has given him an ear for accents and characters. He has appeared in commercials with Jane Lynch and Mena Suvari and performed voices for animation and video games, including Skylanders, Transformers, and Call of Duty. Tom performed as a stand-up comedian, traveling as far afield as Kuala Lumpur, Darwin, and London. He studied at Richmond Drama School in London and Second City in Los Angeles. David Salt is the editor of the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions's bimonthly magazine, Decision Point. Prior to CEED, David created and produced the Helix magazine for CSIRO Education, Newton magazine for Australian Geographic, Materials Monthly for the Australian National University Centre for Science and Engineering of Materials, and ScienceWise for the Australian National University College of Science. He has served as the Communications Manager for CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology and coauthored the widely acclaimed texts Resilience Thinking, Resilience Practice, and Trees and Biodiversity. Brian Walker is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre and coauthor, with David Salt, of Resilience Thinking and Resilience Practice. He has coauthored two books, edited seven, written over 150 scientific papers, and is on the editorial boards of five international journals. He received the Ecological Society of Australia's Gold Medal for 1999. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

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