Abstract

Scientists and decision-makers lack a shared understanding of resilience, and practical applications in renewable resources and biodiversity management are rare. Here, we define ecological-economic resilience as a property of ecological-economic systems that includes three main characteristics — resistance, recovery and robustness (the 3 Rs’). We define ecological-economic resilience management as planning, adaptation and transformational actions that may foster these 3 Rs characteristics. We show to what extent ecoviability modeling provides a relevant framework to operationalize such ecological-economic resilience management. Applications to fisheries and land-use illustrate the general approach.

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