... series focused on resilience in the Arctic to highlight key points. The emergence of resilience science over the past 50 years is presented as a successful contemporary example of the emergence of convergence. We close by describing some of the challenges to the development of convergence research...

...Amber Heckelman; M. Jahi Chappell; Hannah Wittman Enhancing climate resilience in agrarian communities requires improving the underlying socioecological conditions for farmers to engage in adaptation and mitigation strategies, alongside collaborative and redistributive community development...

...Katie Cueva; Gwen Healey Akearok; Sean Guistini; Nicole Kanayurak; Christina V. L. Larsen; Josee Lavoie; Elizabeth Rink; Jon Petter A. Stoor In the field of Arctic health, “resilience” is a concept used to describe the capacity to recover from adversities. The term is widely used in Arctic policy...

... (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Climate change Global warming Multiple stressors Resilience Social-ecological systems...

... Anthropocene Governance Resilience Complexity It is helpful to understand the benefits and trade-offs of divisional bureaucracies based on how they are structured. Organizational design can be classified into several general schema to structure the basic components of organizations: strategic...

... use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Imagination Transformation Social–ecological Cognition Transformative capacity Resilience Arts Sustainability Futures Within...

... Resilience Sustainable agriculture Cuba-US relations Agricultural trade Agroecología Soberanía alimentaria Seguridad alimentaria Resiliencia Agricultura sostenible Relaciones Cuba-EEUU Comercio agrícola Since December 2014, Cuba and the US have begun normalizing relations, and new...

...Iris Tien, Ph.D.; Anne R. Kapuscinski; Kim A. Locke; Andrew J. Hoffman The resilience of buildings and food, energy, and water systems (FEWS) to natural or manmade disruptions are closely linked. The resilience of a building goes beyond the safety of its structural elements and must include...

... interactions and conserve soil are better protected from extreme events, and thus are overall more resilient to climate change. This paper reviews the evidence demonstrating greater resilience on farms that maximize diversity, build soil organic matter, and incorporate other agroecological or ‘sustainable...

... quality over the past century, dam removal offers a significant opportunity to capitalize on these efforts, providing watershed scale restoration and enhancing watershed resilience in the face of significant regional and global anthropogenic changes. * [email protected] The authors...

..., and greater ability to resist and recover from various forms of stress, including herbivorous pests, diseases, droughts, and floods, are among the effects of increased biological diversity noted in a recent review by Cardinale et al. (2012) . The latter effect, often called resilience, is particularly...

..., the scientific review and funding processes, and promotion and tenure processes to encourage and celebrate those who seek to shape trajectories toward greater ecosystem and social resilience and well-being. * [email protected] 01 07 2013 27 10 2013 29 10 2013 2013 Chapin...