Among the hundreds of social-ecological systems researchers gathered in Montreal this past August for the PECS - 3 conference was a group of RAYS (Resilience Alliance Young Scholars) presenting their research in a session titled "Strengthening the theoretical basis of resilience in practice". Over the course of the past three years, RAYS members have led working groups and participated in a series of workshops and meetings, as part of a project supported by the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation. The diverse set of research initiatives shared the common goal of advancing resilience practice to create more sustainable and just futures and the conference provided an important opportunity to share this work with an international network of researchers, practitioners, and peers.
In a conference blog post Madeline Sides writes "This session offered a compelling conversation between several distinct, but related researcher voices. I particularly enjoyed seeing process photos and the bigger context of how this research network was collaborating. I appreciate the efforts of these researchers to address a community-wide need to make resilience assessment theories and tools more interpretable and useable to improve the quality of our collective work."
Read the full blog post "Early Career Researchers Use Multiple Approaches Collaboratively to Strengthen Resilience in Practice" written by Madeline Sides and edited by Rafael Lembi, on the PECS website.
Keywords: PECS, conference, RAYS, resilience assessment, resilience practice
