book

Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

Walker, Brian, and David Salt

Island Press, 2006

recovery ecology precedent
Systems thinking approach to resilience; framework for understanding how communities and ecosystems adapt to disturbance

Referenced in the thesis bibliography as a systems-thinking framework for resilience. Walker and Salt’s approach to understanding how communities and ecosystems adapt to disturbance informs the thesis’s adaptive recovery framework and its emphasis on flexibility rather than rigid restoration of pre-disaster conditions.