Toward operationalizing resilience concepts in Australian marine sectors coping with climate change

Davidson, JL; van Putten, IE; Leith, P; Nursey-Bray, M; Madin, EM; Holbrook, NJ

Toward operationalizing resilience concepts in Australian marine sectors coping with climate change

Davidson, JL van Putten, IE Leith, P Nursey-Bray, M Madin, EM Holbrook, NJ

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Citation:: Ecology and Society, 2013, 18 (3)
Issue Date:: 2013-09-01

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Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Davidson, JL	en_US
dc.contributor.author	van Putten, IE	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Leith, P	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Nursey-Bray, M	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Madin, EM	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Holbrook, NJ	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-09-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Ecology and Society, 2013, 18 (3)	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/27128
dc.description.abstract	We seek to contribute to the scholarship on operationalizing resilience concepts via a working resilience indicator framework. Although it requires further refinement, this practical framework provides a useful baseline for generating awareness and understanding of the complexity and diversity of variables that impinge on resilience. It has potential value for the evaluation, benchmarking, monitoring, and reporting of marine system resilience. The necessity for such a framework is a consequence of the levels of complexity and uncertainty associated with climate change and other global change stressors in marine social-ecological systems, and the problems involved in assessing their resilience. There is a need for: (1) methodologies that bring together knowledge from diverse sources and disciplines to investigate the complexity and uncertainty of interactions between climate, ocean, and human systems and (2) frameworks to facilitate the evaluation and monitoring of the social-ecological resilience of marine-dependent sectors. Accordingly, our main objective is to demonstrate the virtues of combining a case study methodology with complex adaptive systems approaches as a means to improve understanding of the multifaceted dynamics of marine sectors experiencing climate change. The resilience indicator framework, the main product of the methodology, is developed using four case studies across key Australian marine biodiversity and resource sectors already experiencing impacts from climate and other global changes. It comprises a set of resilience dimensions with a candidate set of abstract and concrete resilience indicators. Its design ensures an integrated approach to resilience evaluation. © 2013 by the author(s).	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Ecology and Society	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.5751/ES-05607-180304	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Ecology	en_US
dc.title	Toward operationalizing resilience concepts in Australian marine sectors coping with climate change	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	3	en_US
utslib.citation.volume	18	en_US
utslib.for	0602 Ecology	en_US
pubs.embargo.period	Not known	en_US
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Science
utslib.copyright.status	open_access
pubs.issue	3	en_US
pubs.publication-status	Published	en_US
pubs.volume	18	en_US

Abstract:

We seek to contribute to the scholarship on operationalizing resilience concepts via a working resilience indicator framework. Although it requires further refinement, this practical framework provides a useful baseline for generating awareness and understanding of the complexity and diversity of variables that impinge on resilience. It has potential value for the evaluation, benchmarking, monitoring, and reporting of marine system resilience. The necessity for such a framework is a consequence of the levels of complexity and uncertainty associated with climate change and other global change stressors in marine social-ecological systems, and the problems involved in assessing their resilience. There is a need for: (1) methodologies that bring together knowledge from diverse sources and disciplines to investigate the complexity and uncertainty of interactions between climate, ocean, and human systems and (2) frameworks to facilitate the evaluation and monitoring of the social-ecological resilience of marine-dependent sectors. Accordingly, our main objective is to demonstrate the virtues of combining a case study methodology with complex adaptive systems approaches as a means to improve understanding of the multifaceted dynamics of marine sectors experiencing climate change. The resilience indicator framework, the main product of the methodology, is developed using four case studies across key Australian marine biodiversity and resource sectors already experiencing impacts from climate and other global changes. It comprises a set of resilience dimensions with a candidate set of abstract and concrete resilience indicators. Its design ensures an integrated approach to resilience evaluation. © 2013 by the author(s).

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