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The Construct of Resilience: A Critical Evaluation and Guidelines for Future Work [PDF]
This paper presents a critical appraisal of resilience, a construct connoting the maintenance of positive adaptation by individuals despite experiences of significant adversity.
Suniya S. Luthar+2 more
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Wayfinder: a new generation of resilience practice
Here, we introduce Wayfinder, a novel conceptual framework and a process design for resilience practice. Framed by the Anthropocene argument, and with an explicit social-ecological system focus, the purpose of Wayfinder is to help users navigate toward ...
Elin Enfors-Kautsky+3 more
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Assessing the International Multi-Hazard Disaster Risk Governance in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region [PDF]
The Mekong River Basin faces various interconnected hazards caused by climate risks and human development activities such as rapid hydropower dam construction that may increase disaster risks to downstream countries.
Cahyadi Robby+3 more
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Scientific mobilization of keystone actors for biosphere stewardship
The biosphere crisis requires changes to existing business practices. We ask how corporations can become sustainability leaders, when constrained by multiple barriers to collaboration for biosphere stewardship.
Henrik Österblom+23 more
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Achieving sustainability in the Anthropocene requires radical changes to how human societies operate. The Seeds of Good Anthropocenes (SOGA) project has identified a diverse set of existing initiatives, called “seeds,” that have the potential to catalyze
Aaron J. Tuckey+7 more
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Background: People forced to leave their homes, such as refugees and internally displaced persons, are exposed to various stressors during their forced displacement, putting them at risk for mental disorders.
Sarah K. Schäfer+6 more
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A Theory of Transformative Agency in Linked Social-Ecological Systems
We reviewed the literature on leadership in linked social-ecological systems and combined it with the literature on institutional entrepreneurship in complex adaptive systems to develop a new theory of transformative agency in linked social-ecological ...
Frances R. Westley+6 more
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Engaging with complexity in resilience practice
In a complex and turbulent world, there is heightened interest in managing for resilience. However, resilience guides, particularly those used in the development field, often lack a theoretical grounding in complex adaptive systems.
My M. Sellberg+4 more
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Development of a new resilience scale: The Connor‐Davidson Resilience Scale (CD‐RISC)
Resilience may be viewed as a measure of stress coping ability and, as such, could be an important target of treatment in anxiety, depression, and stress reactions. We describe a new rating scale to assess resilience. The Connor‐Davidson Resilience scale
K. Connor, J. Davidson
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Emerging signals of declining forest resilience under climate change
Forest ecosystems depend on their capacity to withstand and recover from natural and anthropogenic perturbations (that is, their resilience)1. Experimental evidence of sudden increases in tree mortality is raising concerns about variation in forest ...
G. Forzieri+4 more
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