The world needs to be resilient to changing circumstances and prospects: sustaining life,
sustaining well-being and sustaining the environment into the future increasingly mean …

Quantitative approaches to measure and assess resilience are needed to bridge gaps
between science, policy and management. In this paper, we revisit definitions of resilience …

This special issue of Ecology and Society on exploring resilience in social-ecological
systems draws together insights from comparisons of 15 case studies conducted during two …

Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about …

A major challenge of the twenty-first century is ensuring an adequate and reliableflow of
essential ecosystem services to meet the needs of the world's burgeoning and increasingly …

From its roots in ecology, resilience (Holling 1973) has more recently been applied to social–
ecological systems, or SES. Theories of changing resilience explicitly address the …

Despite the increasing popularity of discussions of resilience in disciplines as diverse as
ecology, psychology, economics, architecture, and genetics (among many others) …

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

Scholars from many different intellectual disciplines have attempted to measure, estimate, or
quantify resilience. However, there is growing concern that lack of clarity on the …

The concept of resilience is increasingly employed by researchers and policymakers
concerned with dynamics of socio-ecological systems. This article provided an in-depth …