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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 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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