Website: http://www.resalliance.org

The Resilience Alliance strives to address perceived gaps in the understanding and resolution of complex issues involving people and nature: the conceptual gap created by partial theories and concepts inherent in scientific disciplines; the knowledge gap between science and policy or between understanding and action; and the communication gap, created by limitations of existing media for scientific discourse. They are working to address the first gap by seeking consilience; the second by creating a virtual community of scholars and practitioners; and the third by exploiting the Internet to extend the scope and utility of scientific discourse. Three proposed activities – seeking consilience, building communities, and exploiting the media of the Internet – create the nexus called the Resilience Alliance. As a central focus, these activities aim to expand the use of Ecology and Society, a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability (formerly Conservation Ecology), beyond the traditional.

EVENTS Resilience 2008: Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times April 14, 2008 - Stockholm, Sweden The Resilience Alliance in collaboration with the Royal ...