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A Review Of Measuring Ecosystem Resilience To Disturbance, Chuixiang Yi, Nathan Jackson
A Review Of Measuring Ecosystem Resilience To Disturbance, Chuixiang Yi, Nathan Jackson
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Resilience is the central concept for understanding how an ecosystem responds to a strong perturbation, and is related to other concepts used to analyze system properties in the face of change such as resistance, recovery, sustainability, vulnerability, stability, adaptive capacity, regime shift, and tipping point. It is extremely challenging to formulate resilience thinking into practice. The current state-of-art approaches of assessing ecosystem resilience may be useful for policy makers and ecosystem resource managers to minimize climatological or natural disaster related impacts. Here, we review the methods of assessing resilience and classify and limit them to three cases: (1) forest resilience …
The Rockaway Project - Townes, Diara Jepris D. Townes
The Rockaway Project - Townes, Diara Jepris D. Townes
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The Rockaway Project is a story-driven website that provides information on the government response to Superstorm Sandy recovery on the Rockaway peninsula in Queens, New York. Dozens of climate resiliency projects have been delayed or remain unfinished, despite millions of dollars in funding and six years of promises. The website hosts audio, visual and digital content, gathered through interviews and data collection.
Link to capstone project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAq2BeR4bS0&t=1s