Steve Carpenter on Resilience

Interviewed at the Resilience 2008 conference, Steve Carpenter describes three properties of resilience.

A resilient system could be able to withstand a shock without losing its basic functions. Another property of resilience is a system might be able to adapt to changing circumstances. And a third property is that a resilient system is able to transform to a different way of life, when the current way of life is no longer feasible. 

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