Quotes for the Day
"You’re not a lump of clay, but you’re not a god either."
–Matthew Hutson, The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking
"Snowden argues for local engagement in multiple parallel safe-to-fail actions. These actions are generated from narratives gathered using a technique known as distributed ethnography, which reveals the potential that is in the system."
–Danny Burns and Stuart Worsley, Navigating Complexity in International Development
"personal company is the most important factor for long-term satisfaction."
–weforum.org, A Neuroscientist Who Studies Decision-Making Reveals the Most Important Choice You Can Make
Systems Quotes
"We highlight inclusive interventions such as education and capacity building, development of alliances and partnerships, and enabling sustainable livelihoods, or governance arrangements led by Indigenous peoples and local communities or private actors, as levers to promote positive transformations in the social-ecological systems of protected areas."
–Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras and Miguel A. Cebrián-Piqueras, Ecology & Society: Leverage Points and Levers of Inclusive Conservation in Protected Areas
"We began with some boundaries: in order to be successful for water utilities, we needed to focus on systems (ecological, infrastructure, social); we needed to understand how these systems might be experiencing change; and we needed to measure resilience."
–Home, Water Utilities: Moving From Risk to Resilience — Alliance for Global Water Adaptation
"Promoting the involvement of local people and supporting adaptive learning are two important aspects of managing the resilience of social-ecological systems."
–Brian Walker PhD, Resilience Thinking
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