Realizing resilience for decision-making

R. Quentin Grafton*, Luc Doyen, Christophe Béné, Edoardo Borgomeo, Kate Brooks, Long Chu, Graeme S. Cumming, John Dixon, Stephen Dovers, Dustin Garrick, Ariella Helfgott, Qiang Jiang, Pamela Katic, Tom Kompas, L. Richard Little, Nathanial Matthews, Claudia Ringler, Dale Squires, Stein Ivar Steinshamn, Sebastián VillasanteSarah Wheeler, John Williams, Paul R. Wyrwoll

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Abstract

Researchers and decision-makers lack a shared understanding of resilience, and practical applications in environmental resource management are rare. Here, we define social-ecological resilience as a property of social-ecological systems that includes at least three main characteristics — resistance, recovery and robustness (the ‘three Rs’). We define socio-economic resilience management as planning, adaptation and transformational actions that may influence these system characteristics. We integrate the three Rs into a heuristic for resilience management that we apply in multiple management contexts to offer practical, systematic guidance about how to realize resilience.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)907-913
Number of pages7
JournalNature Sustainability
Volume2
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2019

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