Ecosystem resilience, i.e. an ecosystem's ability to maintain its basic functions and controls under disturbances, is often interpreted as insurance: by decreasing the probability of future drops in the provision of ecosystem services, resilience insures risk-averse ecosystem users against...

Introduction -- The global ecosystem -- The government sectors -- The household sectors' initial choices -- The nonrenewable resource industry -- The capital goods industry -- The consumption goods industry -- The renewable resource industries -- The banking sectors -- Summary of production,...