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The Social Ecology of Resilience
Michael Ungar
Editor
The Social Ecology
of Resilience
A Handbook of Theory and Practice
Editor
Michael Ungar
Killam Professor of Social Work
Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
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DOI -1-4614-0586-3
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Acknowledgements
To bring together a volume of this scope requires the efforts of mitted
individuals. I have to thank dozens of research assistants and colleagues affili-
ated with the Resilience Research Centre who helped anize events that
brought together many of the authors who appear in this book, and who also
helped introduce me, during my travels, to the people doing the most innova-
tive work on resilience in the world. It is the work across dozens of
countries that the RRC sustains that makes a volume like this possible.
I also owe a debt of gratitude to my codirector at the RRC, Linda Liebenberg,
who helped with many of the logistical supports that made this book possible