Resilience thinking: a renewed system approach for sustainability science

Sustainability Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 123-138

  Xu, Li ^a   Marinova, Dora ^a   Guo, Xiumei ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Literature review; Management; Measurement; Resilience; Social ecological systems (SESs); Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942835225     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-014-0274-4     Document Type: Article

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