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Enhancing quantitative approaches for assessing community resilience
Citation:
Chuang, W., A. Garmestani, T. Eason, T. Spanbauer, H. Fried-Petersen, C. Roberts, S. Sundstrom, J. Burnett, D. Angeler, B. Chaffin, L. Gunderson, D. Twidwell, AND C. Allen. Enhancing quantitative approaches for assessing community resilience. Global Environmental Change. Elsevier B.V., Amsterdam, Netherlands, 213:353-362, (2018).
Impact/Purpose:
• Ecological resilience and community resilience are important areas of research. • Quantification of ecological and community resilience is vital to sustainability. • Community resilience must account for multiple scales and cross-scale interactions. • We suggest ways of advancing understanding of coupled human-natural 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 in ecological and community resilience. Upon noting the lack of methods that quantify the complexities of the linked human and natural aspects of community resilience, we identify several promising approaches within the ecological resilience tradition that may be useful in filling these gaps. Further, we discuss the challenges for consolidating these approaches into a more integrated perspective for managing social-ecological systems.
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