General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

By Stephen R. Carpenter, Kenneth J. Arrow, Scott Barrett, Reinette Biggs, William A. Brock, A. Crépin, Gustav Engström, Carl Folke, Terry P. Hughes, N. Kautsky and 12 more. 2012

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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 capacity of social-ecological systems to adapt or transform in response to unfamiliar, unexpected and extreme shocks. Conditions that enable general resilience include diversity, modularity, openness, reserves, feedbacks, nestedness, monitoring, leadership, and trust. Processes for building general resilience are an emerging and crucially important area of research.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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• A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems (2019, background): “…have already been developed and applied to components of farming systems, such as farms (e.g., Darnhofer, 2014; Herman et al., 2018), people (Coutu, 2002), businesses (Reeves et al., 2012), food supply chains (Leat and Revoredo-Giha, 2013; Stone and Rahimifard, 2018) and socio-ecological…”
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