Resilience is a cross-disciplinary concept that is relevant for understanding the sustainability
of the social and environmental conditions in which we live. Most research normatively …

Social scientists, and scholars in related interdisciplinary fields, have critiqued resilience
thinking's oversimplification of social dimensions of coupled social-ecological systems …

As we are confronted with mounting evidence of the profound and potentially irreversible
impacts of human activities on the planet—encapsulated in the notion of the Anthropocene …

Resilience is often promoted as a boundary concept to integrate the social and natural
dimensions of sustainability. However, it is a troubled dialogue from which social scientists …

In the context of accelerated global change, the concept of resilience, with its roots in
ecological theory and complex adaptive systems, has emerged as the favored framework for …

Highlights•Strong feedback loops can lead to unexpected outcomes.•Multi-disciplinary
perspectives help to better understand resilience.•A resilience approach to sustainability …

Resilience scholarship continues to inspire opaque discourse and competing frameworks
often inconsistent with the complexity inherent in social–ecological systems. We contend …

Resilience thinking has in recent decades emerged as a key perspective within research
and policy focusing on sustainable development and the global environmental challenges of …

Resilience thinking is increasingly used as both a theoretical framework and as a tool for
managing and governing social and social–ecological systems. However, resilience may …

Researchers and decision-makers lack a shared understanding of resilience, and practical
applications in environmental resource management are rare. Here, we define social …