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Transforming Development
The Science and Practice of Resilience Thinking
With concerns about climate and global environmental changes, extreme events, and increases in social, economic, and political shocks, the concept of resilience is proving popular across a range of sectors as a way to understand and respond to our surprise-riddled world.
Resilience thinking includes the ability to persist in the face of challenges, adapt to new realities, or transform to fundamentally new paths for development. Resilience thinking is more than a theory, more than a set of tools. It is a way of seeing the world, offering a new perspective of how change in the world happens. Resilience thinking provides a new approach for building understanding and taking action in a complex world that is deeply interconnected and ever-changing. A world where controlled, planned approaches, existing knowledge and current solutions are not enough to effectively respond to the challenges in a highly dynamic and uncertain future. Addressing poverty, injustice, and inequality, and advancing human well-being remains a major ambition and challenge for the 21st century, and it now needs to consider that development will happen in a context radically different from the past.
This course includes case studies and examples from practitioners who are working with resilience concepts in diverse contexts around the world. It is supported by strong scientific evidence and committed to being a platform to bring together and spark collaboration between individuals and organizations from around the world who are driven to transform development.
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Resilience thinking includes the ability to persist in the face of challenges, adapt to new realities, or transform to fundamentally new paths for development. Resilience thinking is more than a theory, more than a set of tools. It is a way of seeing the world, offering a new perspective of how change in the world happens. Resilience thinking provides a new approach for building understanding and taking action in a complex world that is deeply interconnected and ever-changing. A world where controlled, planned approaches, existing knowledge and current solutions are not enough to effectively respond to the challenges in a highly dynamic and uncertain future. Addressing poverty, injustice, and inequality, and advancing human well-being remains a major ambition and challenge for the 21st century, and it now needs to consider that development will happen in a context radically different from the past.
This course includes case studies and examples from practitioners who are working with resilience concepts in diverse contexts around the world. It is supported by strong scientific evidence and committed to being a platform to bring together and spark collaboration between individuals and organizations from around the world who are driven to transform development.
This course is for:
- Development practitioners, policymakers and managers within development agencies around the world, as well as those working in the field with an interest in resilience thinking as it relates to development policy and practice.
- Students who are interested in the intersection of resilience, sustainability and development, and with a general interest in both local and global sustainability challenges
- Anyone with an interest in development, resilience thinking, and sustainability
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Length | 7 weeks |
Effort | 3 - 5 hours per week |
Starts | May 20 (earlier today) |
Cost | $49 |
From | SDGAcademyX via edX |
Instructors | Johan Rockström, Michele-Lee Moore |
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Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Humanities Science |
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Rating | Not enough ratings |
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Length | 7 weeks |
Effort | 3 - 5 hours per week |
Starts | May 20 (earlier today) |
Cost | $49 |
From | SDGAcademyX via edX |
Instructors | Johan Rockström, Michele-Lee Moore |
Download Videos | On all desktop and mobile devices |
Language | English |
Subjects | Social Sciences Humanities Science |
Tags | Social Sciences Philosophy & Ethics Environmental Studies |
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