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WE LIVE IN UNCERTAIN TIMES. As the human population grows, the variety of life declines, ice caps shrink, and our Earth system behaves in ways its species have never experienced. The past no longer provides us with a guide to how the future will behave, and we search for solutions while moving into an increasingly uncertain space. In such a time, resilience science provides important insights to help communities engage with the complex set of challenges they need to navigate.
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Lance Gunderson and C. S. Holling, eds., Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002).
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Gunderson and Holling, Panarchy.
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For example, Brian Walker and David Salt, Resilience Practice: Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012); and Carl Folke, “Resilience (Republished),” Ecology and Society 21, no. 4 (2016): 44, https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09088-210444
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Folke, Carl. “Resilience (Republished).” Ecology and Society 21, no. 4 (2016): 44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09088-210444.
Gunderson, Lance, and C. S. Holling, eds. Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in Human and Natural Systems (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002).
Walker, Brian, C. S. Holling, Steven Carpenter, and Ann Kinzig. “Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social–Ecological Systems.” Ecology and Society 9, no. 2 (2004): 5. http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss2/art5/.
Walker, Brian, and David Salt. Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2006).
Walker, Brian, and David Salt. Resilience Practice: Building Capacity to Absorb Disturbance and Maintain Function (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2012).
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Walker, B., Salt, D. (2017). A Crash Course in the Science of Resilience. In: Lerch, D. (eds) The Community Resilience Reader. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-861-9_10
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