Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability
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The capacity to transform at smaller scales draws on resilience from multiple scales, making use of crises as windows of opportunity for novelty and innovation, and recombining sources of experience and knowledge to navigate social-ecological transitions.Abstract:
Resilience thinking addresses the dynamics and development of complex social-ecological systems (SES). Three aspects are central: resilience, adaptability and transformability. These aspects interrelate across multiple scales. Resilience in this context is the capacity of a SES to continually change and adapt yet remain within critical thresholds. Adaptability is part of resilience. It represents the capacity to adjust responses to changing external drivers and internal processes and thereby allow for development along the current trajectory (stability domain). Transformability is the capacity to cross thresholds into new development trajectories. Transformational change at smaller scales enables resilience at larger scales. The capacity to transform at smaller scales draws on resilience from multiple scales, making use of crises as windows of opportunity for novelty and innovation, and recombining sources of experience and knowledge to navigate social-ecological transitions. Society must seriously consider ways to foster resilience of smaller more manageable SESs that contribute to Earth System resilience and to explore options for deliberate transformation of SESs that threaten Earth System resilience.read more
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Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet
Will Steffen,Will Steffen,Katherine Richardson,Johan Rockström,Sarah Cornell,Ingo Fetzer,Elena M. Bennett,Reinette Biggs,Reinette Biggs,Stephen R. Carpenter,Wim de Vries,Cynthia A. de Wit,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Dieter Gerten,Jens Heinke,Jens Heinke,Jens Heinke,Georgina M. Mace,Linn Persson,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Belinda Reyers,Belinda Reyers,Sverker Sörlin +24 more
TL;DR: An updated and extended analysis of the planetary boundary (PB) framework and identifies levels of anthropogenic perturbations below which the risk of destabilization of the Earth system (ES) is likely to remain low—a “safe operating space” for global societal development.
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The Anthropocene: From Global Change to Planetary Stewardship
Will Steffen,Will Steffen,Åsa Persson,Åsa Persson,Lisa Deutsch,Jan Zalasiewicz,Mark Williams,Katherine Richardson,Carole L. Crumley,Paul J. Crutzen,Carl Folke,Carl Folke,Line Gordon,Mario J. Molina,Veerabhadran Ramanathan,Johan Rockström,Johan Rockström,Marten Scheffer,Hans Joachim Schellnhuber,Uno Svedin +19 more
TL;DR: The Anthropocene is a reminder that the Holocene, during which complex human societies have developed, has been a stable, accommodating environment and is the only state of the Earth System that the authors know for sure can support contemporary society.
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Simin Davoudi,Keith Shaw,L. Jamila Haider,Allyson Quinlan,Garry D. Peterson,Cathy Wilkinson,Hartmut Fünfgeld,Darryn McEvoy,Libby Porter +8 more
TL;DR: The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places as mentioned in this paper, which is a common refrain in the book "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway.
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Community Resilience: Toward an Integrated Approach
Fikret Berkes,Helen Ross +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explore opportunities for an integrated approach in community resilience to inform new research directions and practice, using the productive common ground between two strands of literature on community resilience, one from social-ecological systems and the other from the psychology of development and mental health.
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