REFERENCE RESOURCES
on Resilience and Sustainable Tourism Communities

ARTICLES

1. Resilience - by Carl Folke (2016) in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science - This recent review paper provides historical and recent thinking about resilience and can be viewed online or downloaded as a 60-page pdf file (click here).

2. Scale, change and resilience in community tourism planning - Alan A. Lew - This paper outlines my approach to resilience, sustainability and community tourism, which is what this Collaborative is all about.
3. Applying the Resilience Perspective to Planning: Critical Thoughts from Theory and Practice - Edited by Simin Davoudi and Libby Porter (PDF of this collection of papers) - See, especially S. Douvidi's paper titled: "Resilience: A Bridging Concept or a Dead End?" for an introduction to Evolutionary Resilience.

4. Community Sustainability and Resilience: Similarities, Differences and Indicators - by Alan A. Lew, Pin T. Ng, Chin-cheng (Nickel) Ni, and Tsung-chiung (Emily) Wu - commentary in Tourism Geographies 18(1):18-27 (February 2016) - How to avoid getting resilience and sustainability mixed up. (pre-publication version)

5. A New Metric for Community Resilience - by Edward Jepson (2016) - published on the Planetizen website, provides an urban planners view on resilience.

6. The traditional economy as the source of resilience in Melanesia - Ralph Regenvanu, Member of Parliament, Vanuatu, Director, Vanuatu National Cultural Council

7. What Makes a City Resilient? - Brad Watson, in The Guardian newspaper - See also the first comment to this paper, which represents a major criticism of the resilience approach.

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ORGANIZATIONS
  1. Resilience Connections Network - an online networking platform for individuals working or interested in resilience and sustainability transitions can share insights and experiences: find collaborators, contribute to a shared library of resources. (We are listed on their site here.)

  2. Resilience Alliance - a research organization comprised of scientists and practitioners from many disciplines who collaborate to explore the dynamics of social-ecological systems. They have a long list of references, but not full papers, and a short list of case studies and resilience assessments.

  3. The Stockholm Resilience Centre - advances research on the governance of social-ecological systems with a special emphasis on resilience.

  4. Resilience.org - an information clearinghouse and a network of action-oriented community groups. Of interest is their "groups" page with links to resilience-related groups in the US, and their "resources' page with links to books, videos and websites.
OTHER
  1. Resilient Cities - a resources from The Guardian newspaper, supported by the Rockefeller Foundation. Particularly relevant is the article: What makes a city reslilient?
  2. Community & Regional Resilience Institute (CARRI) - applies a broader social perspective to community disaster preparedness that traditional engineering approaches.
  3. Resilience 2014 - Resilience and Development: Mobilizing for Transformation Conference. 4-8 May 2014 - This website contains video, reports, and powerpoints from this conference, which included many of today's leading resilience thinkers.
  4. Disaster Memory - a blog about understanding social memory of extreme events and disasters - also see this introduction
  5. ​Resilience in Socio-Ecological Systems - a graduate seminar taught by Stevan Harrell at the U of Washington with links to some key readings on the topic.
MEDIA (Videos, Audio and other)

1. The Quest for Human Resilience - (youtube video, 21min) - an anthropological/human evolutionary approach to understanding the contemporary challenge of societal resilience - by Sander van der Leeuw, Dean, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University