Community Resilience under the Impact of Urbanisation and Climate Change

As the world today faces messy problems, what in some circles has
been called global weirding, the term resilience has taken centre stage.
This is crunch time –as we grapple with the negative effects of both
climate change and urbanisation. Some commentators have compared the
huge problems we face today to Oom Schalk’s proverbial leopard waiting
for us in the withaak’s shade. Do we endlessly count Oom Schalk’s
proverbial leopard’s spots? This is the question posed by a stellar cast
of academics, researchers, and experts whose contributions in this text
is a rallying cry for action to build resilience to the challenging
impact of urbanisation and climate change. To that end, this volume
gives hope about the potential for human agency. Our challenge however,
is to re-examine our values, to change our conservation conversation and
return to a more wise and holistic understanding of ourselves and our
place in the Universe. Perhaps, then only can the obituaries on our
demise stay locked in the drawer.