This book seeks answers to questions about the role of education and learning in helping social and ecological systems respond to change.

It was published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research.

Marianne Krasny is Professor and Chair in the Department of Natural Resources at Cornell University, specializing in environmental, science, and sustainability education in urban and other settings in the US and internationally. She has worked on various approaches to environmental education including incorporating traditional knowledge, participatory action research, social learning, and socio-ecosystem resilience.

Cecilia Lundholm is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education, member of the group on Conceptual Development, Director of Centre for Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences, and part of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, at Stockholm University. Her research concerns communication, knowledge and learning of socio-economic as well as ecological phenomena in formal (education) and informal (natural resource management) settings. Lundholm's research is funded by the Swedish Research Council's Committee for Sustainable Development and the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

Ryan Plummer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism and Environment at Brock University, Canada. He teaches courses on the subjects of environmental management, institutional arrangements and issues in environmental studies. At a broad level, his research concerns environmental governance and social-ecological systems.

Foreword: Learning and adapting - central features of resilience Foreword: On Learning, Resilience and Research in Environmental Education Introduction: Resilience in social-ecological systems: the roles of learning and education 1. Resilience and learning: a conspectus for environmental education 2. Social-ecological resilience and environmental education: synopsis, application, implications 3. Learning for resilience, or the resilient learner? Towards a necessary reconciliation in a paradigm of sustainable education 4. Exploring adaptability through learning layers and learning loops 5. Environmental education for social-ecological system resilience: a perspective from activity theory 6. Resilience in learning systems: case studies in university education 7. Agricultural knowledge in urban and resettled communities: applications to social-ecological resilience and environmental education 8. Stewardship, learning, and memory in disaster resilience 9. Participatory action research and environmental learning: implications for resilient forests and communities 10. Responses to climate change: exploring organisational learning across internationally networked organisations for development 11. Learning for resilience? Exploring learning opportunities in biosphere reserves 12. Environmental education, resilience, and learning: reflection and moving forward