ABSTRACT
The text of this chapter has been adapted from the two opening keynote speeches given by Brian Walker and C.S. (Buzz) Holling at the conference ‘Resilience 2008: Resilience, Adaptation and Transformation in Turbulent Times – Preparing for Change in Social-Ecological Systems’, which was held in April 2008 in Stockholm, Sweden. 1 Here, Brian Walker and Buzz Holling, two of the founders of the integrative ecological economics discourse on the resilience of social-ecological systems, take a look at the history and the future of this field of scholarly work, which has given rise to a new generation of individuals and institutes working on integrative, beyond reductionism, ecological economics.
