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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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The Unsustainable Trend of Natural Hazard Losses in the United States

Gall, Melanie; Borden, Kevin A.; Emrich, Christopher T.; … - In: Sustainability 3 (2011) 11, pp. 2157-2181

In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...

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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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