Turn down the heat : Why a 4°c warmer world must be avoided

TL;DR: In this article, the importance of scale and boundaries is emphasized and resilience also offers some value for social protection in relation to spatial processes, such as rural-urban, or trans-boundary, migration.

Abstract: • Resilience thinking can help better incorporate the social-ecological linkages between the vulnerable groups and ecological services on which they depend, thus contributing to a more adequate targeting of (future) vulnerable groups. • By emphasizing the importance of scale and boundaries, resilience also offers some value for social protection in relation to ‘spatial’ processes, such as rural-urban, or trans-boundary, migration. • Being a term that is used (loosely) in a large number of disciplines, resilience can be a very powerful integrating concept that brings different communities of practice together. • Although it is appealing, one should not rely on the term too heavily. It is not a panacea and certainly not the new catch all for development. Instead, it needs to be considered more carefully, especially with the recognition of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ resilience. • On the basis of this, practitioners need to step back, consider the objectives of their interventions and then consider how resilience may support or actually hinder these objectives. • The politics of resilience (who are the winners who are the losers of ‘resilience interventions’) need to be recognised and integrated more clearly into the current discussion.