The future of humanity will depend on our capacity to govern and manage water in ways that build resilience in an era of rapid global change and growing indications of large-scale, undesirable risks caused by the unsustainable exploitation of ecosystems. We define this strategic domain of global sustainability as ‘water resilience’, i.e. the role of water in achieving social–ecological resilience in support of sustainable development in the world. The chapter presents the new conceptual framework for reconnecting our societies to the biosphere and introduces the focus of the book: freshwater and the living systems of the biosphere.
Carl Folke, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Victor Galaz, Frances Westley, Michèle Lamont, Marten Scheffer, Henrik Österblom, Stephen R. Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin, Karen C. Seto, Elke U. Weber, Beatrice Crona, Gretchen C. Daily, Partha Dasgupta, Owen Gaffney, Line Gordon, Holger Hoff, Simon A. Levin, Jane Lubchenco, Will Steffen, Brian Walker
Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, F. Stuart Chapin, Owen Gaffney, Victor Galaz, Holger Hoffmann, Michèle Lamont, Stephen Polasky, Johan Rockström, Marten Scheffer, Frances Westley, Henrik Österblom
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