Measuring resilience is essential if we are to understand it.
Abstract
"Sustainability", "resilience", and other terms group under the heading of "stability."
Their ubiquity speaks to a vital need to characterise changes in complex social and
environmental systems. In a bewildering array of terms, practical measurements are
essential to permit comparisons and so untangle underlying relationships.
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Science & TechnologyLife Sciences & Biomedicine
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Environmental Sciences
Environmental Studies
Science & Technology - Other Topics
Environmental Sciences & Ecology
POPULATION-DYNAMICS
STABLE STATES
VARIABILITY
COMPLEXITY
ECOSYSTEMS
RECOVERY
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10.1038/s41893-019-0399-7Publication Info
Pimm, Stuart L; Donohue, Ian; Montoya, José M; & Loreau, Michel (2019). Measuring resilience is essential if we are to understand it. Nature sustainability, 2(10). pp. 895-897. 10.1038/s41893-019-0399-7. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/23521.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Stuart L. Pimm
Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School
of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Stuart Pimm is a world leader in the study of present-day extinctions and what can
be done to prevent them. His research covers the reasons why species become extinct,
how fast they do so, the global patterns of habitat loss and species extinction and,
importantly, the management consequences of this research. Pimm received his BSc degree
from Oxford University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from New Mexico State University in 1974.
Pimm is the author of over 350 scientific papers and five books. He i

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