Thinking Like a Mountain

Aldo Leoopold, Land Health and Resilience. Mike Jones, Resilience Alliance Practitioner. 'Resilience' has become the buzz-word du jour but what does it mean for human society and the environments within which people live? What does resilience mean for sustainable lifestyles and how might the concepts of resilience science be applied to the real world? One set of answers to these questions can be found in the stories and philosophies of Aldo Leopold. Like many people who live close to the land, Leopold was a natural resilience thinker, long before resilience was developed as a science in the 1970s. This seminar draws on some of Leopold's essays such as Thinking Like a Mountain, Odyssey, Cheat Takes Over and the Land Ethic, which reflect the holistic way in which he thought about land and people and illustrate the processes and concepts of resilience science in simple metaphors.