Acknowledgments PART 1-- Why Think Resilience? 1. Waking Up to Climate Change -- Unprecedented -- Running into Resilience -- A Real-World Test of Resilience -- A Word About Hope 2. Climate Change Is Changing the Weather -- Two Decades of Disaster -- The Climate Change Challenge -- Understanding Climate Vulnerability 3. Understanding Exposure -- Regional Changes and Expected Changes in Weather 4. Understanding Sensitivity -- Crops and Livestock -- Soil and Water -- Weeds, Insects and Disease -- People, Community, Money 5. Understanding Adaptive Capacity -- Farms and Ranches Are Ecosystems -- Cultivating Adaptive Capacity 6. Managing Climate Risk: Adaptation Stories -- Farmers and Ranchers in the Northwest and Southwest -- Farmers and Ranchers in the Great Plains -- Farmers in the Midwest -- Farmers in the Northeast and Southeast-- A New Path for American Agriculture? PART 2-- The Rules of Resilience? 7. A New Way to Think About Solutions -- Resilience Is Not What You Think -- Describing a Social-Ecological System: Focal Scale, Identity and Desirability -- More Than Bouncing Back 8.

The Qualities and Behaviors of Resilient Systems -- The Raw Material of Resilience: Diversity -- A Diversified Portfolio of Assets -- Key Resilience Behaviors -- Specified and General Resilience -- Resilience Design Principles 9. The Rules of Resilience -- Diverse Networks of Reciprocal Relationship -- Regional Self-Reliance -- Accumulation of Community-Based Wealth -- Moving Beyond Industrialism: A Just Transformation 10. Is Sustainable Agriculture a Resilient Agriculture? -- What is Sustainable Agriculture? -- Cultivating Resilience with Sustainable Agriculture 11. Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping Change -- Navigating Uncertainty with Adaptive Management -- Whole Farm Planning Is Adaptive Management -- Nature-Based Solutions: Cultivating Healthy Ecosystems for Land, People and Community -- The Adaptive Continuum: Protect, Adapt, Transform -- Barriers to a Resilient Agriculture: From the Farm Gate to Your Plate PART 3-- What Path to Resilience? 12. The Light and the Dark of These Times -- From Land to Mouth: In Search of Sustainable Food -- Indigenous Foodways -- The Good Food Movement 13. Adding Resilience to the Menu -- The Regional Roots of Resilience -- Metropolitan Foodsheds 14. The Way Forward -- Twelve Things That You Can Do to Cultivate a Resilient Agriculture PART 4-- Real World Resilience: Stories of Land, People and Community 15. Vegetables -- A.

G. Kawamura, Fullerton, California -- Hannah Breckbill, Decorah, Iowa -- Rebecca Graff and Tom Ruggieri, Kearney, Missouri -- Marc White, Keymah Durden and David Hester, Cleveland, Ohio -- Ira Wallace and Mary Berry, Mineral, Virginia -- Pam Dawling, Louisa, Virginia -- C. Bernard Obie, Roxboro, North Carolina 16. Fruits and Nuts -- Mark Shepard, Viroqua, Wisconsin -- Walker Miller, Six Mile, South Carolina 17. Grains -- Bryce Lundberg, Richvale, California -- Gail Fuller, Severy, Kansas 18. Livestock -- Albert Straus, Marshall, California -- Jordan Settlage, St. Mary's, Ohio -- Jamie Ager, Fairview, North Carolina Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers.