Over the last decade, a growing body of literature has emerged which is concerned with the
question of what form a promising concept of social resilience might take. In this article we …

▪ Abstract Ecological studies of terrestrial urban systems have been approached along
several kinds of contrasts: ecology in as opposed to ecology of cities; biogeochemical …

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

The resilience perspective is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the
dynamics of social–ecological systems. This article presents the origin of the resilience …

Hierarchies and adaptive cycles comprise the basis of ecosystems and social-ecological
systems across scales. Together they form a panarchy. The panarchy describes how a …

Resilience is the magnitude of disturbance that can be tolerated before a socioecological
system (SES) moves to a different region of state space controlled by a different set of …

Linking environmental sustainability with poverty reduction and social justice, and making
science and technology work for the poor, have become central practical, political and moral …

This article uses a systemic perspective to identify and analyze the conceptual relations
among vulnerability, resilience, and adaptive capacity within socio-ecological systems …

What makes social-ecological systems (SESs) robust? In this paper, we look at the
institutional configurations that affect the interactions among resources, resource users …

Resilience implies stability in the face of change, but to define it as such leaves open many
questions: What is stable? Which sort of change? Over what span of time? Answers to these …