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Resilience, sustainability environmentalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2001

SHARACHCHANDRA LÉLÉ
Affiliation:
Ecological Economics Unit, Institute for Social and Economic Change, P.O. Nagarabhavi, Bangalore 560 072
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Abstract

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Resilience is turning out to be a resilient concept. First proposed way back in the 1970s in the context of ecosystem dynamics, it was then dissected and elaborated–spawning terms such as malleability, elasticity, hysterisis, inertia, resistance, amplitude–as ecologists struggled to make it into something measurable, usable, and distinct from its notoriously slippery predecessor ‘stability’.

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© 1998 Cambridge University Press