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Quantitative approaches for assessing ecological and community resilience
Citation:
Chuang, W., T. Spanbauer, T. Eason, AND A. Garmestani. Quantitative approaches for assessing ecological and community resilience. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, August 06 - 11, 2017.
Impact/Purpose:
Resilience is a key strategy for assessing and managing emerging global challenges. Quantification of ecological and community resilience is vital to this effort. Research on resilience must account for scale and cross-scale interactions. We suggest approaches for advancing research on social-ecological systems.
Description:
Scholars from many different intellectual disciplines have attempted to measure, estimate, or quantify resilience. However, there is growing concern that lack of clarity on the operationalization of the concept will limit its application. In this paper, we discuss the theory, research development and quantitative approaches from two leading areas of resilience research: ecological resilience and community resilience. Further, we discuss the challenges for consolidating these approaches into a more integrated perspective for managing social-ecological systems.