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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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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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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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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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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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Levels of Landscape Resilience
In the second chapter, the levels of landscape resilience are presented and explained: The given resilience describes the natural initial conditions...
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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...
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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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Establishment of hospital resilience framework in urban China: insight from Wuhan City
Since the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) swept the world, many countries face a problem that is a shortage of medical resources. The role of...
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Landscape Resilience: Conclusions
This chapter summarizes the findings from the case studies. First, conclusions are drawn at the theoretical level with regard to the resilience of...
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Convergences and Divergences in Rural Community Resilience—Case Studies from Ireland and the United Kingdom
The concept of rural community resilience has gained increased traction among academics, policy-makers and rural development practitioners....
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Visualizing YouthMappers’ Contributions to Environmental Resilience in Latin America
YouthMappers throughout Latin America are working to advance the attainment of the SDGs. Our contributions here centre on open data but also the maps...
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Landscape Explorations Between Given and Acquired Resilience
This chapter presents a series of case studies from around the globe. These either take two landscapes of the same type and thus comparable given...
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An Integrated Methodological Framework to Assess Urban Resilience
The assessment of the urban resilience should be tackled with a systemic perspective that enables an integrated analysis of the environmental,...
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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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Analysis of Spatial Scale Effect on Urban Resilience: A Case Study of Shenyang, China
Based on urban physical space and theory of landscape ecology, a triune assessment framework —‘size-density-morphology’—was constructed in order to...
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The Economic Resilience of Old Industrial Cities in China with Different Types of Crises: A Call for Multiple Perspectives
The economic resilience of old industrial areas has been receiving much attention in economic geography and regional development both in...
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Resilience in Migration, Climate Change, and Geopolitics: A Case of the EU’s Periphery
The chapter summarizes case study reports of three social tip** points with different triggers: migration, climate change, and geopolitics. For the...
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Urban Energy Resilience and Strategic Urban Planning in Emilia-Romagna: Evidence from Three Cities
Contemporary cities are facing many challenges, from social and economic issues to the new risks related to the impacts of climate change. Focusing...