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Delivering a Multi-Functional and Resilient Urban Forest

Hale, James D.; Pugh, Thomas A. M.; Sadler, Jon P.; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4600-4624

tensions more explicit, allowing them to be used to test the decadal-scale resilience of urban street trees. Our analysis …

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Incremental Change, Transition or Transformation? Optimising Change Pathways for Climate Adaptation in Spatial Planning

Roggema, Rob; Vermeend, Tim; Dobbelsteen, Andy van den - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 10, pp. 2525-2549

In order to incorporate climate adaptation in spatial planning change is required, because climate change impacts the way we live. This implies that spatial planning, as the arranger of the spatial organisation and layout needs to be able to support this change. Current spatial planning is not...

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A Multi-Scalar Examination of Law for Sustainable Ecosystems

Green, Olivia Odom; Garmestani, Ahjond S.; Hopton, … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 6, pp. 3534-3551

The loss of resilience in social-ecological systems has the capacity to decrease essential ecosystem services, posing …

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Identification and Induction of Human, Social, and Cultural Capitals through an Experimental Approach to Stormwater Management

Green, Olivia Odom; Shuster, William D.; Rhea, Lee K.; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 8, pp. 1669-1682

Decentralized stormwater management is based on the dispersal of stormwater management practices (SWMP) throughout a watershed to manage stormwater runoff volume and potentially restore natural hydrologic processes. This approach to stormwater management is increasingly popular but faces...

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General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

Carpenter, Stephen R.; Arrow, Kenneth J.; Barrett, Scott; … - In: Sustainability 4 (2012) 12, pp. 3248-3259

Resilience to specified kinds of disasters is an active area of research and practice. However, rare or unprecedented … disturbances that are unusually intense or extensive require a more broad-spectrum type of resilience. General resilience is the …. Conditions that enable general resilience include diversity, modularity, openness, reserves, feedbacks, nestedness, monitoring …

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