Resilience thinking: a renewed system approach for sustainability science

This paper examines the contribution of resilience thinking for social-ecological systems (SESs) in understanding sustainability and the need to preserve natural resources in the face of external perturbations. Through qualitative and quantitative analysis, the literature survey shows the increased...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xu, L., Marinova, Dora, Guo, X.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38523