Resilience Theory and YouTube

The Best Explanation To Resilience on YouTube is excellent, brief, and easy to understand. In this "Stockholm Whiteboard Seminar" from Albaeco and Stockholm Resilience Centre, Professor Brian Walker (Australia) opens with the fundamental question of resilience: "How much can you change a self organizing system before it is no longer resilient?" using examples from emergency rooms, and a forest. Then, he clearly illustrates the limits of change: the point at which the self organizing system can no longer survive.

Watch this 22 second explanation of Resilience: What is Regime Shift" for a clear and concise explanation of one of the key terms used in resilience thinking.

Watch Allyson Quinlin, communication director for the Resilience Alliance talk about Resilience Assessments being a process that engages stakeholders to better understand their system. Note: her emphasis that stakeholder involvement is essential for the seeding of resilience is a key of the Resilience System and Networks approach using FAC Teams to provide assessment guidance and technical assistance if needed.

In this related video, she answers the question How is resilience put into practice?, by saying system characteristics are first identified with an assessment, and then resilience comes with building diversity, creating knowledge networks and building social trust, and working towards the key characteristics of social ecological systems.