The One-Sidedness and Cultural Bias of the Resilience Approach

Abstract

We currently face a dramatic loss of natural services, such as fish resources, fertile soils, and climate regulation. In order to sustainably manage these services, the resilience approach is increasingly being put forward. The cultural presumptions of this approach frequently go unnoticed. However, they lead to both a partial organismic concept of ecological units and a one-sided concept of a highly bounded man-nature relationship – and thus to potentially inadequate recommendations for environmental management.