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

Walker and Salt’s systems-thinking framework for resilience examines how communities and ecosystems adapt to disturbance. Their approach informs the adaptive recovery framework and its emphasis on flexibility rather than rigid restoration of pre-disaster conditions.