Applying Resilience Thinking: Seven principles for building resilience in social-ecological systems

Originally aired March 10, 2016

Few concepts have gained such prominence as resilience — the capacity of a system to deal with change and continue to develop. This webinar convened authors of a landmark publication to discuss seven principles that clarify how to apply resilience thinking and address the interactions among underlying social and ecological systems. The assessment was funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research and conducted by experts from the Stockholm Resilience Center, Stockholm University, and Arizona State University.

Speakers

Michael Schoon (Moderator)

Assistant Professor, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Michael Schoon is an Assistant Professor in Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability, focusing on policy and governance in sustainable systems. He is active in international research communities on resilience, robustness, and complex systems through the Resilience Alliance and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, serves on the board for IUCN’s Transboundary Conservation Specialist Group, and serves as co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of the Commons.

Jennifer Hodbod

Senior Sustainability Fellow, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University

Jennifer Hodbod is a Senior Sustainability Fellow in ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability whose research focuses on environmentally and economically sustainable food systems that can equitably feed a growing global population while adapting to security threats such as climate change, changing preferences, and economic shocks. She utilizes environmental social science and political ecology methods within a resilience assessment framework to investigate human-environment interactions across multiple scales.

Jaccopo Baggio

Assistant Professor of Environment & Society, Utah State University

Jaccopo Baggio is an Assistant Professor of Environment & Society at Utah State University whose research focuses on analyzing and modeling social-ecological systems. His work examines the conditions under which collective action succeeds in human societies and how social-ecological networks characterize inter-dependencies between biodiversity, food, water, energy, and decision making.