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Resilience reconciled

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Resilience scholarship continues to inspire opaque discourse and competing frameworks often inconsistent with the complexity inherent in social–ecological systems. We contend that competing conceptualizations of resilience are reconcilable, and that the core theory is useful for navigating sustainability challenges.

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Fig. 1: Competing models representing the resilience response of systems over time and to disturbances.
Fig. 2: Three-dimensional model of stability landscapes.

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We thank A. Ahmed for graphics support. This work was supported by the Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research Development Program W912HQ-15-C-0018 and by the National Science Foundation under Grant no. OIA-1738857. The views expressed in this manuscript are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views and findings of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

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  1. Center for Resilience in Agricultural Working Landscapes, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

    Craig R. Allen & Dirac Twidwell

  2. School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

    Craig R. Allen

  3. Department of Aquatic Sciences and Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

    David G. Angeler

  4. W.A. Franke College of Forestry and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA

    Brian C. Chaffin

  5. Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA

    Dirac Twidwell

  6. US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Ahjond Garmestani

  7. Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law, Utrecht University School of Law, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Ahjond Garmestani

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Allen, C.R., Angeler, D.G., Chaffin, B.C. et al. Resilience reconciled. Nat Sustain 2, 898–900 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0401-4

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