ORGANIZATION
Resilience Alliance
The international research network formalizing Holling's resilience framework across ecology, economics, and social-ecological systems.
The Resilience Alliance is the international, multidisciplinary research network founded in the 1990s to develop and apply resilience thinking to the governance of complex social-ecological systems. Co-founded by Holling, Lance Gunderson, Brian Walker, Carl Folke, and colleagues, the Alliance formalized the adaptive cycle, panarchy, and adaptive governance frameworks into a working research program with contributions from ecology, economics, anthropology, political science, and systems theory. Its workshops, journals (Ecology and Society), and flagship texts have shaped environmental policy, resource management, and — increasingly — analysis of the AI transition.
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The Alliance emerged from Holling's work at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria during the 1980s and was formally constituted in 1999 as a network of researchers committed to developing resilience theory through sustained interdisciplinary collaboration.
Its central publications include Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems (2002), Resilience Thinking by Brian Walker and David Salt (2006), and Resilience Practice (2012). The journal Ecology and Society, founded as Conservation Ecology in 1997, serves as the primary scholarly outlet.
