TY - JOUR
T1 - Societal collapse or transformation, and resilience
AU - Pearson, Leonie J.
AU - Pearson, Craig J.
PY - 2012/7/24
Y1 - 2012/7/24
N2 - The recent article by Butzer (1) illustrated, through historical analysis, that resilience is not enough: many societies have collapsed irrespective of their resilience capacity. We argue that it might be because of their preoccupation with resilience. What they needed, and what Butzer also writes, is transformability: “…after overcoming initial, ideological dissonance, people can indeed come together to support change” (1). This is truly a message for our times as governments struggle with transforming to low-carbon societies.
AB - The recent article by Butzer (1) illustrated, through historical analysis, that resilience is not enough: many societies have collapsed irrespective of their resilience capacity. We argue that it might be because of their preoccupation with resilience. What they needed, and what Butzer also writes, is transformability: “…after overcoming initial, ideological dissonance, people can indeed come together to support change” (1). This is truly a message for our times as governments struggle with transforming to low-carbon societies.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84864331667&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1073/pnas.1207552109
DO - 10.1073/pnas.1207552109
M3 - Letter
C2 - 22730464
AN - SCOPUS:84864331667
SN - 0027-8424
VL - 109
SP - 2030
EP - 2031
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
IS - 30
ER -