Resilience, Adaptation, Sustainability: What do we now mean by 'future progress'? - Paperback

by Robert Riddell (Author)

Around 1970 the planet and our occupation of it was pretty much a situation of balance; the biospheric absorptive and recycling capacity coping with resource uptake and waste discard. Since then a doubled human mass and carbon gas overload has spawned the greenhouse effect that has activated ice field melt, savannah extension, rainforest depletion, waste accumulation and species extinction. Resilience is a prevent-and-adapt advisory. It evokes limits for the growth-on-growth ideology and print money process. It provokes a births-deaths equilibrium, reduced fossil carbon consumption, rainforest restoration and waste recycling. It is about future-proofing the next generation.

Author Biography

Robert Riddell (MA Camb. PhD Newcastle (UK), DipTP(NZ), ARICS), following a working life of mixed academic and practical endeavour, has retired to Helensville, a small town in New Zealand. Together with wife Heather, they established a Montessori pre-school. He has enjoyed the pleasure of working with esteemed colleagues on prestigious projects throughout his varied career, which include the following placements: Late 1960s to early 1970s: Lecturer, Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle on Tyne, Early 1970s - mid 1980s: Assistant Director, Development Studies - Cambridge University, 1985 - 2000: Professor of Planning - University of Auckland (retired emeritus)