Resilience Assessment as a Tool for Understanding the Amazon Frontier as a Social-Ecological System

This article introduces resilience thinking and a methodology for Resilience Assessment that consists of defining the system (key issue and system boundaries in time and space); looking at history (timeline and cross-scale drivers and interactions); specifying resilience of what to what (defining at...

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Main Authors: Robert Buschbacher, Simone Athayde, Wendy-Lin Bartels, Ricardo Mello
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de Brasília 2016-11-01
Series:Sustentabilidade em Debate
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Online Access:http://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/sust/article/view/15134