The (Un)Sustainable Side of Resilience in the Anthropocene
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 438
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Interests: sustainability; complexity; systems thinking; viable systems approach; project management; organizational cybernetics; service science
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the human footprint permeates ecosystems and societies as an effect of the Anthropocene, the already close connection between social and ecological systems is becoming more significant than ever. Accordingly, socio-ecological resilience—i.e., the ability of communities, societies, and entire ecosystems to cope with stress and unrest due to social, political, and environmental changes—has regained centrality in the understanding of such a multi-equilibrium context. This poses new issues for institutions and policymakers, in a twofold sense.
On the one hand, about institutions’ approach toward resilience. In social terms, institutions tend to frame resilience as a conservative social process, aimed at maintaining formal, standardized, legitimated social structures in time. However, what happens when such a process fails?
On the other hand, about the intrinsic nature of systems that replicate themselves resiliently. Is resilience always a positive goal to be fostered? When does resilience produce (un)sustainable outcomes?
To formulate consistent answers, an interdisciplinary approach is required. Submissions from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, using different methodological approaches, are welcome. We also encourage submissions that can craft an interdisciplinary conversation with further socio-cultural approaches to sustainability and resilience.
Therefore, we hope to foster academic attention to the following:
- historical antecedents in sustainability and resilience issues
- the role of institutions/policymakers in reinforcing/balancing systems’ resilient behaviours
- the development of resilient policies/intervention strategies toward global sustainability
- system approaches, methods, and techniques to frame the interplay between sustainability and resilience
Dr. Francesca Iandolo
Prof. Sergio Barile
Prof. Cristina Simone
Dr. Antonio La Sala
Dr. Biagio Merola
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- resilience
- anthropocene
- systems thinking
- policy making
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