Perspectives on Resilience to Disasters across Sectors and Cultures

We present some insights on the use and interpretation of resilience ideas that arose in a conference on "Society's Resilience in Withstanding Disaster." Three points in particular have relevance for those interested in resilience in social-ecological systems: (1) Time as a threshold...

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Main Authors: Brian Walker, Frances Westley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2011-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss2/art4/