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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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The Climate Adaptation Frontier

Preston, Benjamin L.; Dow, Kirstin; Berkhout, Frans - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 3, pp. 1011-1035

Climate adaptation has emerged as a mainstream risk management strategy for assisting in maintaining socio-ecological systems within the boundaries of a safe operating space. Yet, there are limits to the ability of systems to adapt. Here, we introduce the concept of an “adaptation frontier”,...

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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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