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The end of sustainability : resilience and the future of environmental governance in the anthropocene
\"In this provocative study, Melinda Harm Benson and Robin Kundis Craig argue that sustainability--the long-term ability to continue engaging in a particular activity, process, or use of natural resources with some marginal changes--is no longer a feasible goal as climate change has dramatic impacts on our world. Sustainable development, which considers environmental and natural resources in order to assure their continuing availability, has failed to stop climate change or sufficiently adjust to the demands of a rapidly changing environment. Instead the authors argue for the concept of resilience as a better guide to environmentally sound policies. Unlike sustainability, which seeks to continue what we've done in the past, resilience anticipates the need for dramatic change and focuses on adapting human systems. In light of the possibility of non-linear and sometimes irreversible change, resilience considers the degree to which we need to adjust both our ways of living and our personal and societal objectives\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The End of Sustainability
The time has come for us to collectively reexamine-and ultimately
move past-the concept of sustainability in environmental and
natural resources law and management. The continued invocation of
sustainability in policy discussions ignores the emerging reality
of the Anthropocene, which is creating a world characterized by
extreme complexity, radical uncertainty, and unprecedented change.
From a legal and policy perspective, we must face the impossibility
of even defining-let alone pursuing-a goal of \"sustainability\" in
such a world. Melinda Harm Benson and Robin Kundis Craig propose
resilience as a more realistic and workable communitarian
approach to environmental governance. American environmental and
natural resources laws date to the early 1970s, when the
steady-state \"Balance of Nature\" model was in vogue-a model that
ecologists have long since rejected, even before adding
the complication of climate change. In the Anthropocene, a new era
in which humans are the key agent of change on the planet, these
laws (and American culture more generally) need to embrace new
narratives of complex ecosystems and humans' role as part of
them-narratives exemplified by cultural tricksters and resilience
theory. Updating Aldo Leopold's vision of nature and humanity as a
single community for the Anthropocene, Benson and Craig argue that
the narrative of resilience integrates humans back into the complex
social and ecological system known as Earth. As such, it empowers
humans to act for a better future through law and policy despite
the very real challenges of climate change Melinda Harm Benson is
an associate professor in the Department of Geography and
Environmental Studies at the University of New Mexico.
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