We examine the social burden associated with resilience to environmental shocks in pre-
modern societies. We argue that analyses of state-level interventions to mitigate the …

The concept of resilience in ecology has been expanded into a framework to analyse human-
environment dynamics. The extension of resilience notions to society has important limits …

Resilience has emerged as a key concept in ecology and conservation biology to
understand and predict ecosystem responses to global change. In its broadest sense …

Through 3 broad and interconnected streams of thought, resilience thinking has influenced
the science of ecology and natural resource management by generating new …

Resilience–a term that has roots in ancient thinking and was developed in mathematics and
engineering–is slowly coming of age in today's arena of environmental policy-making …

If resilience theory is to be of practical value for policy makers and resource managers, the
theory must be translated into sensible decision-support tools. We present herein a set of …

The goal of ecosystem management is to provide a sustainable flow of multiple ecosystem
services to society today and in the future. As an integral component of natural resource …

Scientists and researchers concerned with the behavior of large ecosystems have focused
in recent years on the concept of" resilience." Traditional perspectives held that ecological …

The question of what and how to measure ecological resilience has been troubling
ecologists since Holling 1973s seminal paper in which he defined resilience as the ability of …

Presents a conceptual framework that can help focus treatment of the contrasts between
global and local behavior on the one hand and between continuous and discontinuous …