Introduction

On Friday 28 April 2006, members of the Resilience Alliance (www.resalliance.org) presented an open symposium at the SANBI Biodiversity Centre in Pretoria. The symposium focussed on "re-organisation and management of complex social-ecological systems: global and southern African perspectives." Approximately 120 delegates listened to the presentations and participated in the discussions. The following presentations are made available for viewing or download with the consent of the presenters:

Presentations

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Brian Walker:A resilience approach to resource management and governance (2.00 MB)

Carl Folke:Social-ecological systems and adaptive governance (1.93 MB)

Lance Gunderson:Dealing with uncertainty in policy decisions: tales of flips (357 kb)

Line Gordon:Water and resilience in agro-ecosystems (2.35 MB)

Christo Fabricius:Southern Africa: what spurred our interest? (1.36 MB)

Tim Lynam:Scale, perception and resilience in Gorongosa, Mozambique (2.27 MB)

Harry Biggs:Reorganization of land use and societal options: the Bushbuckridge wetlands (1.15 MB)

David Cumming:Collapse and renewal in South Eastern Zimbabwe (1.83 MB)