Synthesis: Building Resilience and Adaptive Capacity in Social-Ecological Systems
2002 (English)In: Navigating Social-Ecological Systems: Building Resilience for Complexity and Change / [ed] Berkes, F., Colding, J. and Folke, C., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 1, , p. 393p. 352-387Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
A weekly magazine on business development issued an analysis of Madonna, the pop star, and raised the question ‘How come Madonna has been at the very top in pop music for more than 20 years, in a sector characterized by so much rapid change?’ A few decades ago, successful companies developed their brand around stability and security. To stay in business this is no longer sufficient, according to the magazine. You must add change, renewal, and variation as well. However, change, renewal, and variation by themselves will seldom lead to success and survival. To be effective, a context of experience, history, remembrance, and trust, to act within, is required. Changing, renewing, and diversifying within such a foundation of stability and maintaining high quality have been the recipe for success and survival of Madonna, and for rock stars such as Neil Young and U2. It requires an active adaptation to change, not only responding to change, but also creating and shaping it. In the same spirit, Sven-Göran Eriksson, coach of several soccer teams in Europe, claimed that it is the wrong strategy not to change a winning team. A winning team will always need a certain amount, but not too much, of renewal to be sustained as a winning team. Sustaining a winning team requires a context for renewal, or ‘framed creativity,’ borrowing from the language of the advertiser.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 1. , p. 393p. 352-387
National Category
Ecology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-28285DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511541957.020ISBN: 9780521061841 (print)ISBN: 9780511541957 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-28285DiVA, id: diva2:1255408
2018-10-122018-10-122018-11-26Bibliographically approved