Resilience reconciled

Craig R Allen; David G Angeler; Brian C Chaffin; Dirac Twidwell; Ahjond Garmestani

doi:10.1038/s41893-019-0401-4

Resilience reconciled

Nat Sustain. 2019 Oct 9:2:898-900. doi: 10.1038/s41893-019-0401-4.

Authors

Craig R Allen^{1

2}, David G Angeler³, Brian C Chaffin⁴, Dirac Twidwell^{1

5}, Ahjond Garmestani^{6

7}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
² School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
³ Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁴ W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
⁵ Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
⁶ US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
⁷ Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law, Utrecht University School of Law, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Abstract

Resilience scholarship continues to inspire opaque discourse and competing frameworks often inconsistent with the complexity inherent in social-ecological systems. We contend that competing conceptualizations of resilience are reconcilable, and that the core theory is useful for navigating sustainability challenges.

Grants and funding

EPA999999/ImEPA/Intramural EPA/United States