Presidential Address: Building Resilience

Another aspect of the unknowns, first pointed out by C S Holling, who was the 'father' of the notion of resilience (Holling 1973 2004; Walker and Salt 2006), is that natural systems may exist in different relatively stable states and can flip from one such state to another - an idea now pa...

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Published in:The Geographical journal 2007-09, Vol.173 (3), p.273-275
Main Author: Conway, Gordon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applied ecology
Avian flu
Climate change
Climate tipping point
Dams
Ecological sustainability
Ecoregions
Geography
Human ecology
Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable development
Tsunamis
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Summary:Another aspect of the unknowns, first pointed out by C S Holling, who was the 'father' of the notion of resilience (Holling 1973 2004; Walker and Salt 2006), is that natural systems may exist in different relatively stable states and can flip from one such state to another - an idea now partly conceptualised in the term 'tipping points' (Gladwell 2000).
ISSN:0016-7398
1475-4959
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2007.00245.x