Abstract:Resilience thinking is an entirely new way of thinking about the resource management. It is particularly recommended by the Resilience Alliance. Resilience thinking is widely considered as a theoretical base of sustainable development by many scholars. The book Resilience Thinking, written by the program director of the Resilience Alliance, is the master work of the sustainable development theory. This book presents the principal concepts of resilience thinking, describes the nature of the resilient social-ecological system, and discusses the perspective of practices of resilience thinking.