Editing C. S. Holling (section)

== Biography ==
Crawford Stanley Holling was born in 1930 in the United States to Canadian parents. He grew up in [[Northern Ontario]], which was where he first became interested in nature. As a teenager he was a member of the [[Royal Ontario Museum|Royal Ontario Museum's]] Toronto Junior Field Naturalists.

Holling received his B.A. and M.Sc. at the [[University of Toronto]] in 1952 and his Ph.D. at the [[University of British Columbia]] in 1957. He worked for several years in the Canadian Department of Forestry in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

After working for [[Forestry Canada]], Buzz Holling was, at various times, Professor and Director of the Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, Director of the [[International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis]] in [[Vienna]], and Eminent Scholar, Arthur R. Marshall Jr. Chair in Ecological Sciences in the Department of Zoology at the University of Florida.

He retired from the University of Florida in 1999, but remained on the faculty as an Emeritus Eminent Scholar.

He was awarded two major awards from the [[Ecological Society of America]], the Mercer Award given to a young scientist in recognition of an outstanding paper in ecology in 1966, and the Eminent Ecologist Award for "outstanding contributions to the science of Ecology" in 1999. He also received the Kenneth Boulding Memorial Prize, in 2000, the [[Volvo Environment Prize]] in 2008, an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Guelph in 1998, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from the Simon Fraser University in 2011. He was a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]], a foreign Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and has been awarded the [[Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art]]. In 2009, he was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] "for his pioneering contributions to the field of ecology, notably for his work on ecosystem dynamics, resilience theory and ecological economics".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=5815|title=Governor General announces 60 new appointments to the Order of Canada|date=July 1, 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705124004/http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=5815|archivedate=July 5, 2009}}</ref>

He was founding editor-in-chief of the open access on-line journal ''Conservation Ecology'', now renamed ''[[Ecology and Society]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Holling|first=C. S.|date=2002|title=A New Phase|journal=Conservation Ecology|volume=5|issue=2|doi=10.5751/es-00317-050223|issn=1195-5449}}</ref> He was also the founder of the Resilience Alliance, an international science network.<ref name=":0" />