ABSTRACT
The preceding chapter discussed how resilience concepts can inform understandings of poverty and its persistence, and how international development might be re-shaped in an era of global change. This chapter further develops my vision for resilience informed by diverse science and knowledge, and by the experiences of everyday forms of resilience. Three elements underpin this re-visioning of resilience, and they resonate with and reflect the political ecology perspective laid out in earlier chapters. These three elements are resistance, rootedness and resourcefulness, and they bring new dimensions to current approaches to resilience, which ensure that the concept and the science of resilience speaks more directly and usefully to the concerns of international development and global change. This re-orientation results in a more socially informed understanding of resilience, which acknowledges multiple meanings and understandings, as well as the multilayered politics and process of dealing with, negotiating and actively shaping change.
