Resilience thinking: Integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability

Ecology and Society

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Folke, Carl ^a,b   Carpenter, Stephen R ^c   Walker, Brian ^a,d   Scheffer, Marten ^e   Chapin, Terry ^f   Rockström, Johan ^a,g  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^g STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptability; Adaptation; Resilience; Social ecological systems; Transformability; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; INNOVATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 78651520429     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-03610-150420     Document Type: Article

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