resilience

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Resilience
related: sustainability transition movement, circulareconomy, buzzword bingo

//Resilience// is the positive capacity to cope with stress and catastrophe. Roll with the punches

Buzzword Bingo
Biodiversity - Change -- climate - Crisis - Diversity - Energy - Flexibility - Limits - new orleans - Options - Psychology - Sustainability - Threshold - Tipping Point - World Conservation Congress

Recommended listening
[|Resilience Science] - Scientists around the world believe that we need to focus on ways of making our urban and natural environments more resilient.

[|Resilience] - Imagine life, as you know it changes in an instant.

[|Toward a resilient future] - Building resilience isn’t just about future security, it’s about building growth and prosperity.

Wikipedia
[|Resilience] [|Psychological resilience]

Headlines
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/opinion/forget-sustainability-its-about-resilience.html

Elsewhere on the Web
http://www.resalliance.org http://rs.resalliance.org

Case studies included in Ecology and Society Special Feature Exploring Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems:
 * [|Causse Méjan, France]
 * [|Coral reefs of the Caribbean]
 * [|Dry Spiny Forests, Southern Madagascar]
 * [|Everglades, Florida, USA]
 * [|Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique]
 * [|Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia]
 * [|Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden]
 * [|Mae Ping River Basin, Thailand]
 * [|Maine Fisheries, USA]
 * [|Malinau Region, Borneo]
 * [|Northern Highland Lakes District, Wisconsin, USA]
 * [|Phoenix, Arizona, USA]
 * [|Rangelands of New South Wales, Australia]
 * [|South-East Lowveld, Zimbabwe]
 * [|Western Australian Wheatbelt, Australia]

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Reports: [|Community Resilience Strategy] [|http://www.getprepared.org.nz]

Resilient Cities
http://100resilientcities.rockefellerfoundation.org http://100resilientcities.rockefellerfoundation.org/cities http://100resilientcities.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/entry/durban-loses-a-third-of-its-drinking-water-before-it-reaches-its-destinatio

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