Ecosystems and Resilience (including resilience to climate change)

Does Adaptive Management of Natural Resources Enhance Resilience to Climate Change?

Authors: Emma L. Tompkins and W. Neil Adger
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia
Published in Ecology & Society

This paper suggests that building resilience into both human and ecological systems is an effective way to cope with environmental change characterized by future surprises or unknowable risks.