book
Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems
Holling, C.S.
Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 1973
ecology 
recovery Foundational theory of ecological resilience; framework applied to urban systems and post-disaster recovery
Referenced in the thesis bibliography as foundational theory. Holling’s distinction between resilience and stability in ecological systems informs the thesis’s conceptual framework for adaptive recovery, where the goal is not to restore pre-disaster conditions but to build capacity for absorbing future disturbance.