• Resilience Thinking – Walker & Salt
    • new approach to managing resources
    • looking at problems from a unified socio-ecological framework
    • the implications of “growth, conservation, release and re-organisations” of highly adaptive systems.
  • The Resilient Organisation – Valikangas
    • Praciticing resilience and building it into the organisational design
    • Strategic resilience – turning threats into opportunities before they have time to form
  • Prosperity Without Growth – Tim Jackson
    • Evaluates how “human society can flourish – within the ecological limits of a finite planet”
  • Other Resources:
    • Story of Stuff by Annie Leonard
      • Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption & Disposal = “Materials economy”.
      • Linear system. “We cannot run a linear system on a finite planet.”
      • System interacts with societies, cultures and environments and “bumps” into limits.
      • Consumption drives the system.
        • Planned Obsolescence & Perceived Obsolescence
  • Other Keywords:
    • Sustainability
      • Sustainability of cultures
    • Resilience
    • Diversity
    • (how these apply in organisations/societies)
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