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General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events

2012; Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute; Volume: 4; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3390/su4123248

2071-1050

Stephen R. Carpenter, Kenneth J. Arrow, Scott Barrett, Reinette Biggs, William Brock, Anne‐Sophie Crépin, Gustav Engström, Carl Folke, Terry P. Hughes, Nils Kautsky, Chuan-Zhong Li, Geoffrey R. McCarney, Kyle C. Meng, Karl-Göran Mäler, Stephen Polasky, Marten Scheffer, Jason F. Shogren, Thomas Sterner, Jeffrey R. Vincent, Brian Walker, Anastasios Xepapadeas, A.J. de Zeeuw,

Climate change impacts on agriculture

Resilience to specified kinds of disasters is an active area of research and practice. However, rare or unprecedented disturbances that are unusually intense or extensive require a more broad-spectrum type of resilience. General resilience is the capacity of social-ecological systems to adapt or transform in response to unfamiliar, unexpected and extreme shocks. Conditions that enable general resilience include diversity, modularity, openness, reserves, feedbacks, nestedness, monitoring, leadership, and trust. Processes for building general resilience are an emerging and crucially important area of research.