Geoff Wilson has worked on research topics linked to human-environment interactions for the past 20 years, with extensive research conducted in various geographical settings including New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. He has published several books, including 'Environmental Management: New Directions for the 21st Century' and is currently Editor of the journal 'Geography Compass: Environment and Society'.

'Community Resilience and Environmental Transitions is a welcome addition to studies of the increasingly pervasive concept of resilience.' – Gerald Taylor Aiken, Environmental Values

• 1. Introduction  2. Towards a Framework for Understanding Community Resilience  3. Transition Theory: Environmental Pathways and Resilient Communities  4. System Memory: Community Learning, Tradition and Historical Networks  5. Path Dependency: 'Lock-In' Mechanisms and Pathways of the '(Im)possible'  6. Transitional Corridors: External Constraints for Endogenous Community Resilience  7. Environmental transitions and the Policy Challenge: How to make Local Communities More Resilient  8. Conclusions