Resilience

Lindsey Colbourne has written a paper on "Resilience" for the Sustainable Development Commission. I have been dubious about the usefulness of this organisation for some time. Mr Porritt seems to be making a fine career around being a good egg ecologically but he is clearly an establishment insider. Ms Colbourne’s work is an academic paper offering a definition of the term “Resilience” in relation to environmental issues. It offered no new insights regarding the problems we are facing, beyond suggesting a new label for what used to be called “sustainable development” before the term stopped attracting government funding.