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Hybrids, Bifocals, Tipping Points and Speed Dating:Report from the Resilience-Vulnerability Colloquium – From Theory to Practice, From Disconnect to Synergy in Support of Sustainable Development

This report presents key points and outcomes of a colloquium organised by the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Stockholm Environment Institute in cooperation with the University of Melbourne.

Rasmus Kløcker Larsen / Published on 13 March 2009
Citation

Miller, F.; Klocker Larsen, R.; Thomalla, F. (2008). Hybrids, Bifocals, Tipping Points and Speed Dating:Report from the Resilience-Vulnerability Colloquium - From Theory to Practice, From Disconnect to Synergy in Support of Sustainable Development. Miller, F., Larsen, R.K. and F. Thomalla (2008). Hybrids, bifocals, tipping points and speed dating: Report from the Resilience-Vulnerability Colloquium: From theory to practice, from disconnect to synergy in support of sustainable development. Stockholm: SEI. SEI project report.

The workshop aimed to:

  • Advance a new and comprehensive understanding of how resilience and vulnerability concepts interlink and offer synergies
  •  Improve synthesis of ongoing case studies that bring a resilience and vulnerability approach to pressing development problems
  •  Improve the translation of resilience and vulnerability research into operational management concepts by mainstreaming resilience and vulnerability into policy and management practices towards sustainability and poverty reduction

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