Resilience Thinking – Walker and Salt (2012)

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title: Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
authors: Brian Walker and David Salt
year: 2012
publisher: Island Press
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Efficiency is purchased by a loss in flexibility	22
Resilience Thinking understands thresholds and adaptive cycles	18
Resilience Thinking embraces the reality that things change	17
Resilience Thinking creates antifragile systems	15
General resilience depends on diversity, modularity, and feedbacks	14
Optimization aims to hold a system in an optimal state	11
Resilience is the capacity to absorb shocks and retain function	11
Complex adaptive systems are unpredictable and non-linear	10
Diversity of a system affects resilience	10
Resilient systems require both specified and general resilience	9
Systems cannot be held in an optimal state	9
Modularity of a system affects resilience	8
Optimizing a system reduces its resilience	8
Adaptability is the capacity of actors to manage the resilience of a system	7
Resilience is the distance between the system and its nearest threshold	7
Systems of nature tend to follow an adaptive cycle	7
Tightness of feedback loops affects a system’s resilience	6
All linked adaptive cycles govern the behavior of a system	5
Increasing efficiency tends to lock up a system	5
Proximity to a threshold decreases the shock required to cross it	5
Specified resilience defends against known disturbances	5
Transformability is the capacity to create a new system	5