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Towards a bridging concept for undesirable resilience in social-ecological systems

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posted on 2023-06-07, 08:48 authored by André Z Dornelles, Emily Boyd, Richard J Nunes, Mike Asquith, Wiebren J Boonstra, Izabela Delabre, J Michael Denney, Volker Grimm, Anke Jentsch, Kimberly A Nicholas, Matthias Schröter, Ralf Seppelt, Josef Settele, Nancy Shackelford, Rachel J Standish, Genesis Tambang Yengoh, Tom H Oliver
Resilience is a cross-disciplinary concept that is relevant for understanding the sustainability of the social and environmental conditions in which we live. Most research normatively focuses on building or strengthening resilience, despite growing recognition of the importance of breaking the resilience of, and thus transforming, unsustainable social-ecological systems. Undesirable resilience (cf. lock-ins, social-ecological traps), however, is not only less explored in the academic literature, but its understanding is also more fragmented across different disciplines. This disparity can inhibit collaboration among researchers exploring interdependent challenges in sustainability sciences. In this article, we propose that the term lock-in may contribute to a common understanding of undesirable resilience across scientific fields.

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Global Sustainability

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2059-4798

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Cambridge University Press

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3

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1-12

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a20

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2020-06-09

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2020-07-21

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2020-06-09

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