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Spatial Resilience in Case Studies of SESs

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One of the ultimate tests of the value of ideas about spatial resilience is whether or not they can be applied usefully to understanding and interpreting real-world case studies. In the introduction to this book I made the claim that the widespread tendency amongst empirical complex systems researchers to disregard spatial aspects of resilience, or at least to leave them out of core analyses and models, is one of the reasons why case studies of resilience in qualitatively different systems have yielded so few of the generalities that give science its predictive power.

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Cumming, G.S. (2011). Spatial Resilience in Case Studies of SESs. In: Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0307-0_10

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