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Converging disciplinary understandings of social aspects of resilience

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  • Kirsten Maclean
  • Helen Ross
  • Michael Cuthill
  • Bradd Witt

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Resilience thinking has developed separately in the bodies of literature on social-ecological systems, and that published principally within developmental psychology and mental health on the resilience of individuals. This paper explores what these bodies of literature might learn from the other towards a more integrated and enriched understanding of both social-ecological systems and social resilience. The psychology-based literature recognises a strong set of factors that enhance the strengths of individuals and communities, but lacks a sophisticated integration of the physical environmental context. The social-ecological systems literature offers an excellent foundation in complex adaptive systems, but tends to superimpose ecological concepts of system function onto the human domain, and needs to include an array of core social science concepts that are important to a full understanding of social-ecological systems. An example on north eastern Australia suggests how a converged understanding of social resilience could assist managers to acknowledge, enhance and foster social resilience in linked social-ecological systems.

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  • Kirsten Maclean & Helen Ross & Michael Cuthill & Bradd Witt, 2017. "Converging disciplinary understandings of social aspects of resilience," Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 60(3), pages 519-537, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jenpmg:v:60:y:2017:i:3:p:519-537
    DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2016.1162706
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    1. Jorge Moya & María Goenechea, 2022. "An Approach to the Unified Conceptualization, Definition, and Characterization of Social Resilience," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(9), pages 1-15, May.

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