Despite the increasing popularity of discussions of resilience in disciplines as diverse as
ecology, psychology, economics, architecture, and genetics (among many others)�…

The Earth's biotic resources are experiencing a spreading crisis, which is leading not only to
the most rapid loss of species in the past 65 million years, but also causing abrupt changes�…

The magnitude and rapidity of global environmental change threatens the perpetuation of
life on Earth. Many aspects of this crisis are familiar to us-the destruction of tropical�…

Resilience thinking in relation to the environment has emerged as a lens of inquiry that
serves a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration. Resilience is about�…

The ability of human societies to ameliorate, adapt to, and benefit from changing
environmental conditions requires fundamental knowledge of the responses of terrestrial�…

Resilience is usually defined as the capacity of an ecosystem to absorb disturbance without
shifting to an alternative state and losing function and services [1–3]. The concept therefore�…

The Earth as a whole can be viewed as a social-ecological system; in fact, the largest such
system that can exist. The increasing evidence that human activities are now interacting with�…

" Climate change is increasingly recognized as a security issue. Yet this recognition belies
contestation over what security means and whose security is viewed as threatened. Different�…

Human alteration of the global environment has triggered the sixth major extinction event in
the history of life and caused widespread changes in the global distribution of organisms�…