Vulnerability and resilience: Coalescing or paralleling approaches for sustainability science?

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 570-576

  Turner, B L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coupled human environment system; Environmental services; Resilience; Sustainability; Tradeoffs; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-OFF; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 78650180267     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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