From academic to applied: Operationalising resilience in river systems

Title
From academic to applied: Operationalising resilience in river systems
Publication Date
2018
Author(s)
Parsons, Melissa
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3918-7306
Email: mparson@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mparson
Thoms, Martin
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8074-0476
Email: mthoms2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:mthoms2
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Place of publication
Netherlands
DOI
10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.040
UNE publication id
une:22811
Abstract
The concept of resilience acknowledges the ability of societies to live and develop with dynamic environments. Given the recognition of the need to prepare for anticipated and unanticipated shocks, applications of resilience are increasing as the guiding principle of public policy and programs in areas such as disaster management, urban planning, natural resource management, and climate change adaptation. River science is an area in which the adoption of resilience is increasing, leading to the proposition that resilience may become a guiding principle of river policy and programs. Debate about the role of resilience in rivers is part of the scientific method, but disciplinary disunity about the ways to approach resilience application in policy and programs may leave river science out of the policy process. We propose six elements that need to be considered in the design and implementation of resilience-based river policy and programs: rivers as social-ecological systems; the science-policy interface; principles, capacities, and characteristics of resilience; cogeneration of knowledge; adaptive management; and the state of the science of resilience.
Link
Citation
Geomorphology, v.305, p. 242-251
ISSN
1872-695X
0169-555X
Start page
242
End page
251

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