Dr. Marcus Carson, Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden and
Arctic Resilience Report Resilience in the Arc-c: Responding effectively to rapid change Marcus Carson – ARR Project Director Joel Clement – ARR Co-chair with Gary Peterson, Annika E. Nilsson, Sarah Cornell, Juan Carlos Rocha, Miriam Huitric, Claudia Strambo, & Martin Sommerkorn The Arctic – Hot or Cold? Washington D.C. – 19 May, 2015 Arctic Resilience Report Arctic Resilience Report • An Arc&c Council Project Swedish AC Chairmanship initiative • Led by Stockholm Environment Institute and Stockholm Resilience Centre • Engagement of experts across the Arctic • Interim Report delivered 2013 Arctic Resilience Report ARR Second Phase • Swedish-US Co-Chairmanship • Led collaboratively by SEI and SRC with engagement of expertise across the Arctic • Final Scientific Report May 2016 • Policymaker synthesis May 2017 • Resilience contribution to AACA-C Arctic Resilience Report Arctic Resilience Report Resilience? “takes a licking and keeps on 0cking” Mul0ple defini0ons • Focus on nature: the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to s&ll retain essen&ally the same func&on, structure, iden&ty, and feedbacks (Walker et al 2004) • Focus on people: the capacity to adapt and sense of choice that empower a community to consciously engage in transforma&ve change – either in response to disturbances, or in pursuit of a more desirable set of arrangements (Davidson 2010) Social-‐ecological Resilience • the capacity to learn & use shared knowledge of systems func&ons and feedbacks, empowering communities to consciously engage in adap&ve or transforma&ve change – whether in response to disturbances, to stave off unwanted changes, or in pursuit of a more desirable set of arrangements. • This defini*on makes social and ecological systems-‐ related learning & knowledge an explicit element of “adap*ve and/or transforma*ve capacity”. Arctic Resilience Report SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ”Humans” & ”nature” - parts of coupled systems Human/ social Biological / ecosystems Physical Arctic Resilience Report Nalunaktuq “the Inuit have learned the harshest lessons from the Land. The best such lesson has been that of nalunaktuq: the fact that general trends serve as poor indicators of what the Arctic will actually do” (Qitsualik 2006) One Arctic, multiple goals One Arctic, or many? What does Resilience add? Key themes: • One space, diversity and mul0ple goals that must be reconciled • An inherently systems approach that bridges social and ecological systems. Requires interdisciplinarity • Concerned with non-‐linear change, with cross-‐scale feedbacks, &pping points, unpredictability • Resilience is fundamentally concerned about capacity to learn and use knowledge for adapta0on & transforma0on Arctic Resilience Report
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