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Resilience trinity: safeguarding ecosystem functioning and services across three different time horizons and decision contexts [PDF]
, 2020 Ensuring ecosystem resilience is an intuitive approach to safeguard the functioning of ecosystems and hence the future provisioning of ecosystem services (ES). However, resilience is a multi‐faceted concept that is difficult to operationalize.
Auge, Harald +9 more
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Toward a culturally sensitive conceptualization of resilience: participatory research with war-affected communities in northern Uganda [PDF]
, 2015 Resilience research with war-affected populations has long conceptualized resilience as the absence of psychopathology and operationalized it by use of standardized measures.
Ager, Alastair +4 more
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Is resilience a normative concept? [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, we engage with the question of the normative content of the resilience concept. The issues are approached in two consecutive steps. First, we proceed from a narrow construal of the resilience concept – as the ability of a system to absorb ...
Bird A. +6 more
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An Integrated Framework to Streamline Resilience in the Context of Urban Climate Risk Assessment
Earth's Future, 2021 Cities are increasingly acknowledged as crucial when facing climate change—and the environmental crisis more in general—, offering challenges and opportunities in terms of both mitigation and adaptation. Climate change‐sensitive urban governance requires
A. Urquiza +6 more
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HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine, 2023 Description On one of the busiest parkways, in the midst of a spring drought, despite the lack of soil a sunflower blooms. This tiny beacon of hope represents the enduring spirit of humanity managing to struggle through this recent global pandemic. For me as a program director, it conjures to mind my graduating family medicine residents.
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Ecology and Society, 2016 In human dominated landscapes many diverse, and often antagonistic, human activities are intentionally and inadvertently determining the supply of various ecosystem services.
Megan Meacham +3 more
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Ecology and Society, 2017 The concept of resilience is currently being widely promoted and applied by environmental and development organizations. However, their application of resilience often lacks theoretical backing and evaluation.
My M. Sellberg +3 more
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Earth, Planets and Space, 2022 Ocean-bottom pressure gauges of wide and dense ocean-bottom observation networks around Japan, S-net and DONET, observed ocean waves caused by the Tonga eruption that started at approximately 13:00 JST (UTC + 0900) on January 15, 2022. We scrutinized the
Hisahiko Kubo +6 more
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Ecology and Society, 2017 To develop and apply goals for future sustainability, we must consider what people care about and what motivates them to engage in solving sustainability issues.
Vanessa A. Masterson +6 more
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AMA Journal of Ethics, 2018 When I told people I was pursuing a career in medicine, the statistics of female physician suicide were mentioned. When I professed an interest in surgery, I was told to choose a specialty for lifestyle, because as a woman I would need a career that would allow me to raise my future children.
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