Enhancing the resilience of ecosystem services (ES) that underpin human well-being is
critical for meeting current and future societal needs, and requires specific governance and …

Ecosystems influence human societies, leading people to manage ecosystems for human
benefit. Poor environmental management can lead to reduced ecological resilience and …

Increasingly, platform-based sharing business models are celebrated by new ventures. They
are positive toward the potential profit margin, which is considered higher than that of …

A social-ecological system (SES) framework increasingly underpins the “resilience
paradigm.” As with all models, the SES comes with particular biases. We explore these key …

Transformative actions are increasingly being required to address changes in climate. As an
aid to understanding and supporting informed decision-making regarding transformative …

This article presents an inquiry into prospects for application of the conceptual lens of
resilience to social systems. The dominant paradigm of sustainability in its current form is …

Resilience implies stability in the face of change, but to define it as such leaves open many
questions: What is stable? Which sort of change? Over what span of time? Answers to these …

This article investigates the impacts of globalization processes on community resilience. It
argues that theoretical concepts such as transition theory can provide a lens through which …

This book discusses the resilience of communities in both developed and developing world
contexts. It investigates the notion of 'resilience'and the challenges faced by local …

Scale is a concept that transcends disciplinary boundaries. In ecology and geography, scale
is usually defined in terms of spatial and temporal dimensions. Sociological scale also …