Nick Abel

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare resilience properties in two contrasting socioecological systems, lake districts and rangelands, with respect to the following three general features: (a) the ability of an SES to stay in the domain of attraction is related to slowly changing variables, or slowly changing disturbance regimes, which control the boundaries of the area of attraction or the frequency of events that could push the system across the boundaries.

TL;DR: An evolving approach to analyzing resilience in SESs, as a basis for managing resilience, with a framework with four steps, involving close involvement of SES stakeholders is proposed.

TL;DR: All social-ecological systems are vulnerable to recent and projected changes but have sources of adaptive capacity and resilience that can sustain ecosystem services and human well-being through active ecosystem stewardship.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a resilience-based approach for assessing sustainability in a sub-catchment of the Murray-Darling Basin in southeast Australia, and identify the main issues, drivers, and potential shocks.

TL;DR: In this article, a generalisable analytical framework for exploring planned retreat from the sea behind natural ecological defences is proposed, where the option of planned retreat is disappearing because the State Government promotes population increase; the need to provide places for naturally protective coastal ecosystems to occupy does not seem urgent, so houses are built there; liability laws favour development; and political pressure to build defences grows as the value of built assets increases.