Duailibi, M.Klenk, N.Bazely, Dawn R.Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)2020-03-022020-03-022015Strengthening resilience by thinking of knowledge as a nutrient connecting the local person to global thinking: the case of social technology / tecnologia social,” by Dawn Bazely, Patricia E. Perkins, Miriam Duailibi and Nicole Klenk, in ​Planetary Praxis and Pedagogy: ​Transdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental ​Sustainability, edited by Richard Mitchell and Shannon Moore (Rotterdam/Boston/Taipei: Sense Publishers), pp. 119-132https://hdl.handle.net/10315/37049In this chapter, we describe the Knowledge as a Nutrient framework that emerged from these conversations. We describe how it relates to the Tecnologia Social policy approach to sustainability, developed in Brazil (Dagnino et al. 2004, Fundação Banco do Brasil 2009, Costa 2013), which is not well known in the anglophone world. Tecnologia Social was both inspired by and rooted in Paulo Freire’s pedagogical thinking (2000, Klix 2014).   We show how this framework has the potential to increase community resilience and adaptive capacity, not only for communities that face and must adapt to climate change but for all communities in the throes of complex social, ecological, economic and political transitions.enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canadadisenfranchised peopleclimate changeSocial TechnologyInstitute for research and Innovation in SustainabilityEcojusticeindigenous peopletransdisciplinaryTecnologia Social Paulo Freire’secological theoryPreprint