Focusing the Meaning(s) of Resilience Resilience as a Descriptive Concept and a Boundary Object

This article reviews the variety of definitions proposed for “resilience” within sustainability science and suggests a typology according to the specific degree of normativity. There is a tension between the original descriptive concept of resilience first defined in ecological science and a more re...

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Published in:	Ecology and society Vol. 12; no. 1; p. 23
Main Authors:	Brand, Fridolin Simon, Jax, Kurt
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Resilience Alliance 01.06.2007
Subjects:	boundary object Boundary objects Coastal ecology definition descriptive concept Ecological disturbance Ecological economics ecological resilience Ecological sustainability Ecology Ecosystems Human ecology Marine ecology Material resilience resilience sustainability Synthesis typology
ISSN:	1708-3087, 1708-3087
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