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General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events
Carpenter, Stephen R. Arrow, Kenneth J. Barrett, Scott Biggs, Reinette Brock, William A. Crépin, Anne-Sophie Engström, Gustav Folke, Carl Hughes, Terry P. Kautsky, Nils
Carpenter, Stephen R.
Arrow, Kenneth J.
Barrett, Scott
Biggs, Reinette
Brock, William A.
Crépin, Anne-Sophie
Engström, Gustav
Folke, Carl
Hughes, Terry P.
Kautsky, Nils
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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 transform in response to unfamiliar, unexpected and extreme shocks. Conditions that enable general resilience include diversity, modularity, openness, reserves, feedbacks, nestedness, monitoring, leadership, and trust. Processes for building general resilience are an emerging and crucially important area of research.
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2012-12-01
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University of Wyoming. Libraries
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SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CRITICAL TRANSITIONS; ADAPTIVE GOVERNANCE; ENVIRONMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; TRUST; OCEAN; WORLD,Business