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 …

In sustainability science, revising the paradigms that separate humans from nature is
considered a powerful 'leverage point'in pursuit of transformations. The coupled social …

Increased interest in managing resilience has led to efforts to develop standardized tools for
assessments and quantitative measures. Resilience, however, as a property of complex …

This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation
within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology …

Protected areas (PAs) remain central to the conservation of biodiversity. Classical PAs were
conceived as areas that would be set aside to maintain a natural state with minimal human …

Resilience thinking has frequently been proposed as an alternative to conventional natural
resource management, but there are few studies of its applications in real-world settings. To …

Resilience has surged to the forefront of conversations in the increasingly intertwined
development and adaptation communities of practice. However, their use of this concept …

This study presents a conceptual framework for analyzing urban resilience in the context of
climate change. The key conceptual elements of resilience are first identified and then …

Cities and towns have become increasingly interested in building resilience to cope with
surprises, however, how to do this is often unclear. We evaluated the ability of the Resilience …

The vulnerability of extensive sheep systems in marginal areas, and their capacity to deliver
important socio-economic functions and ecosystem services, can be studied through the …