In a world of growing complexity and uncertainty, the security of food supplies is threatened
by many factors. These include multiple processes of global change (eg climate change …

In this paper, we have reviewed various approaches to defining resilience and the
assessment of resilience. We have seen that while resilience is a useful concept, its diversity …

A major concern for the world's ecosystems is the possibility of collapse, where landscapes
and the societies they support change abruptly. Accelerating stress levels, increasing …

" Across diverse disciplines, the term resilience is appearing more and more often. However,
while each discipline has developed theory and models to explain the resilience of the …

Regime shifts are large, abrupt, and persistent critical transitions in the function and structure
of ecosystems. Yet, it is unknown how these transitions will interact, whether the occurrence …

Climate change is expected to have adverse impacts and implications for a range of human-
environment systems. However, our understanding of the extent to which these impacts may …

A flourishing literature assesses how sustainable business models create and capture value
in socio-ecological systems. Nevertheless, we still know relatively little about how the …

This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation
within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology …

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.(Ernest
Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929) We live in challenging times with a heightened …

Cascading effects and cascading disasters are emerging fields of scientific research. The
widespread diffusion of functional networks increases the complexity of interdependent …