Measuring resilience is essential to understand it

Stuart L. Pimm (), Ian Donohue, José M. Montoya and Michel Loreau
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Stuart L. Pimm: Duke University
Ian Donohue: Trinity College Dublin
José M. Montoya: CNRS, UPS
Michel Loreau: CNRS, UPS

Nature Sustainability, 2019, vol. 2, issue 10, 895-897

Abstract: The terms sustainability, resilience and others group under the heading of ‘stability’. Their ubiquity speaks to a vital need to characterize changes in complex social and environmental systems. In a bewildering array of terms, practical measurements are essential to permit comparisons and so untangle underlying relationships.

Date: 2019
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