Network Structure, Diversity, and Proactive Resilience Building

Lenore Newman and Ann Dale, 2005, "Network structure, diversity, and proactive resilience building: a response to Tompkins and Adger," Ecology and Society.

Human societies can make choices that will limit the need for adaptation in the future, and create space for future options. This proactive behavior can take two dynamic forms: the adoption of new innovations, and the practice of a precautionary principle to eliminate unknown negative scenarios through avoidance and, ideally, fundamental changes in behavior.