General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

Resilience to specified kinds of disasters is an active area of research and practice. However, rare or unprecedented disturbances that are unusually intense or extensive require a more broad-spectrum type of resilience. General resilience is the capacity of social-ecological systems to adapt or tra...

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Main Authors: Brian Walker, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Thomas Sterner, Jason Shogren, Marten Scheffer, Karl-Göran Mäler, Stephen Polasky, Kyle Meng, Geoffrey McCarney, Chuan-Zhong Li, Nils Kautsky, Terry P. Hughes, Carl Folke, Gustav Engström, Anne-Sophie Crépin, William A. Brock, Reinette Biggs, Scott Barrett, Stephen R. Carpenter, Kenneth J. Arrow, Anastasios Xepapadeas, Aart de Zeeuw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2012-11-01
Series:Sustainability
Subjects:
extreme events
general resilience
polycentric governance
resilience
social-ecological system
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/4/12/3248

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