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- Title
Can Resilience be Reconciled with Globalization and the Increasingly Complex Conditions of Resource Degradation in Asian Coastal Regions?
- Authors
Armita, Derek; Johnson, Derek
- Abstract
This paper explores the relationship between resilience and globalization. We are concerned, most importantly, with whether resilience is a suitable conceptual framework for natural resource management in the context of the rapid changes and disruptions that globalization causes in social-ecological systems. Although theoretical in scope, we ground this analysis using our experiences in two Asian coastal areas: Junagadh District in Gujarat State, India and Banawa Selatan, in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. We present the histories of resource exploitation in the two areas, and we attempt to combine a resilience perspective with close attention to the impact of globalization. Our efforts serve as a basis from which to examine the conceptual and practical compatibility of resilience with globalization. The first challenge we address is epistemological: given that resilience and globalization have roots in different disciplines, do they share a sufficiently common perception of change and human action to be compatible? Second, we address the issue of how resilience can be a viable management objective in the rapidly changing context of globalization. We identify scale as particularly important in this regard.
- Subjects
ASIA; NATURAL resources management; GLOBALIZATION; BIOCOMPLEXITY; SOCIAL ecology; INTRACOASTAL waterways
- Publication
Ecology & Society, 2006, Vol 11, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
1708-3087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-01485-110102