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How to Apply Resilience Thinking: In Australia and Beyond?

In: Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future Insights from 45 global thought leaders

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Resilience, in the context of earth's ecosystems, is defined as the capacity to absorb a shock, reorganize, and continue to function as before. This basic ability is often taken for granted by the global economy, and yet evidence is mounting that crucial ecosystems are in decline. Without a rethinking of how we use the earth's resources and the development of an approach based on resilience, many of those declines may be irreversible…

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  • Brian Walker, 2014. "How to Apply Resilience Thinking: In Australia and Beyond?," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Robert Costanza & Ida Kubiszewski (ed.), Creating a Sustainable and Desirable Future Insights from 45 global thought leaders, chapter 31, pages 233-238, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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