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Temporal and spatial responses of ecological resilience to climate change and human activities in the economic belt on the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains, China
In the Anthropocene era, human activities have become increasingly complex and diversified. The natural ecosystems need higher ecological resilience...
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River and watershed organizations in the U.S. Intermountain West: key actors in social-ecological resilience
River and watershed organizations are important local and regional actors working toward the resilience of rivers and watersheds. Social ecology and...
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The coupling relationship between urbanization and ecological resilience in the Pearl River Delta
Urban resilience is an emerging research topic of urban studies, and its essence is described by the ability of cities to resist, recover, and adapt...
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Integrating Fail-Safe and Safe-to-Fail practices in resilience planning
Resilience planning has gained significant attention from scholars and practitioners. However, most resilience planning based on either engineering...
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Resilience: A Co-evolutionary Concept
This chapter presents several theoretical and qualitative features that characterize both the concepts of resilienceResilience and social...
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Do marine protected areas protect shallow coral reef systems? A resilience-based management approach in Tropical Southwestern Atlantic reefs
Adequate methods to evaluate the extension of global and local damage on coral reefs, and to minimize it, are urgent. The Tropical Southwestern...
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Dryland Social-Ecological Systems in Africa
In Africa, dryland ecosystem is the largest biome complex, covering 60% of the continent and home to ~525 million people. Coupled with adverse...
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Modelling Landscape Resilience
Modelling landscape resilience requires suitable formulas for describing landscape (de)stabilization processes after stochastic disturbance. A...
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Can Multiple Livelihood Interventions Improve Livelihood Resilience of Out-of-poverty Farmers in Mountain Areas? A Case Study of Longnan Mountain Area, China
Clarifying the impact of livelihood interventions on the livelihood resilience of farmers in undeveloped mountain areas can not only optimize...
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Social-Ecological-Technical Misalignments Threaten Mountain Water Tower Resilience in Utah, USA
The essential “water tower” role played by mountains is compromised by climate change and human development. Misalignments in various...
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Spatio-temporal evolution and dynamic simulation of the urban resilience of Bei**g-Tian**-Hebei urban agglomeration
The continuous growth of urban agglomerations in China has increased their complexity as well as vulnerability. In this context, urban resilience is...
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Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Risk Management and Information Sharing for Resilience to the Changing Climate
This paper examines the complexity of vulnerability, risk perception, and adaptation strategies in the context of climate change, with a focus on the...
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Resilience of the EU’s Periphery vis-à-vis Social Tip** Points: Policy Recommendations
The final section provides policy recommendations for dealing with social tip** points from the perspective of the EU periphery. First, we...
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Hazard assessment and an adaptation-based design as a tool for coastal resilience in Istanbul
Istanbul has to deal with increasing water-based disasters due to global climate change. Current studies commonly look for risk assessment models,...
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Spatio-temporal Evaluation of Multi-scale Cultivated Land System Resilience in Black Soil Region from 2000 to 2019: A Case Study of Liaoning Province, Northeast China
It is of great significance to systematically analyze the cultivated land system resilience (CLSR) for the black soil protection and national food...
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Survival Strategy, and Resilience of the People Living in Inaccessible Rural Areas of Bangladesh
This chapter looks at the traditional ecological knowledge practiced by the local communities over the generations living in inaccessible,...
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Embedding Resilience to Climate Change and Natural Hazards in Smart Services
Natural and man-made hazards are increasingly threatening our cities and communities. It is therefore imperative to provide readily accessible...
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Landscape ecological risk assessment and its driving factors in the Weihe River basin, China
Weihe River basin is of great significance to analyze the changes of land use pattern and landscape ecological risk and to improve the ecological...
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Using the GIS to Assess Urban Resilience with Case Study Experience
Urban resilience refers to the degree, limitation, or extent to which cities can withstand change before reorganizing into a new set of structures...
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Factors Influencing Landscape Resilience
This chapter identifies and discusses possible factors influencing the conditions for landscape resilience. It is assumed that resilience does not...