Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems

Marianne Krasny is Professor and Chair in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, specializing in environmental, science, and sustainability education in urban and other settings in the US and internationally. She has worked on various approaches to environmental education including incorporating traditional knowledge, participatory action research, social learning, and socio-ecosystem resilience.Cecilia Lundholm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education, member of the group on Conceptual Development, Director of Centre for Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences, and part of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, at Stockholm University. Her research concerns communication, knowledge and learning of socio-economic as well as ecological phenomena in formal (education) and informal (natural resource management) settings. Lundholm's research is funded by the Swedish Research Council's Committee for Sustainable Development and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.Ryan Plummer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism and Environment at Brock University, Canada. He teaches courses on the subjects of environmental management, institutional arrangements and issues in environmental studies. At a broad level, his research concerns environmental governance and social-ecological systems.