Conference presentation
Making Resilience Possible: From Theory to Practice
Biennial National Rural Remote Social Worker Conference, 11th (Inverloch, Australia, 25-Jul-2013–26-Jul-2013)
Australian Association of Social Workers
2013
Abstract
Global stressors that are impacting on the rural community life such as energy stress as a result of scarcity of conventional oil; economic stress as a result of global economic instability and widening income gaps between rich and poor; demographic stress from differentials in population growth rates between rich and poor societies and from expansion of mega-cities in poor societies; environmental stress from worsening damage to land, water forests, and fisheries; and, finally the climate stress from changes in the composition of Earth's atmosphere. The cumulative effect of the above variables contributes t the growing risk of a cascading collapse of systems vital to our human wellbeing - a phenomenon Thomas Homer-Dixon calls as "synchronous failure" (2011). Consequently communities are expected to do everything in order to avoid such outcomes, today. In sequence, this paper addresses three areas: Our ability to cope, become resilient and build home without hurricanes, storm surges, excess rainfall and winds that ignite fresh fires; Undertake a re-visit of the context of rural and remote stranded-ness and the 'ecological adaptive cycle metaphor'; and finally address The social processes that facilitate the recovery and promote resilience identified in recent research in Australia.
Details
- Title
- Making Resilience Possible: From Theory to Practice
- Authors
- Venkat Pulla (Author) - Charles Sturt University
- Conference details
- Biennial National Rural Remote Social Worker Conference, 11th (Inverloch, Australia, 25-Jul-2013–26-Jul-2013)
- Publisher
- Australian Association of Social Workers
- Date published
- 2013
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2013 The Author. Reproduced here with permission.
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99447776602621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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