Routledge Resilience: Key Ideas in Geography - Routledge

Resilience explores the contested concept that has reshaped how we understand human-environment relations and environmental governance. This advanced introduction examines whether resilience represents a genuine paradigm shift or merely a passing trend, and debates its dual nature as both a tool for empowering environmental management and a potentially depoliticizing force that may suppress activism. Tracing the concept's evolution from ecological theory to its critical challenge of conventional environmental practices, the book provides students with comprehensive analysis of resilience's theoretical foundations, practical applications, and political implications in contemporary environmental discourse.