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Resilience

2016
Resilience
At a glance

Resilience is the ability of the environment to withstand or recover from a shock or disturbance. Although the concept of resilience was developed and is mainly used in relation to ecosystems, it is a valuable concept across the environment and in environmental management. Effective...

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Resilience of marine systems

2016
Marine environment
Resilience
Report Content
The concept of resilience is not straightforward, with definitions varying ... vary, depending on the system of focus. Definitions of resilience can contain any combination of 3 major principles ...
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Resilience of biodiversity 2016

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceResilience is a key underpinning principle of Australia’s Biodiversity Conservation Strategy 2010–2030, as well as state and territory, and regional biodiversity strategies. The definition of resilience in biodiversity strategies and policies is still relatively ambiguous, and...

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Managing biodiversity for resilience

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Report Content
... is a phenomenon that is vitally important to understand. Resilience has stimulated much valuable research that has ... persistence and recovery. However, use of the concept of resilience in policy and strategies is often quite ambiguous, ... of any policy or management program designed to strengthen resilience will require greater clarity around how resilience ...
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Factors affecting resilience capacity

2016
Heritage
Resilience
Report Content

2016 Heritage Resilience A major systemic threat to Australia’s heritage is its relative priority in planning, land use and development decision-making. Heritage is often determined to be expendable in the name of a...

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Evidence of past resilience

2016
Heritage
Resilience
Report Content
The resilience of heritage places depends on the nature of their ...
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Factors affecting resilience capacity

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Report Content
... from species to landscapes, will interact to determine resilience capacity. For example, a species’ sensitivity to ... response to its environment) are properties that underpin resilience (these are described in more detail in SoE 2011). ... in the landscape are important properties affecting resilience ( Oliver et   al. 2015 ). ...
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Evidence of past resilience

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Report Content
... of strategies that different species employ that provide resilience to change. However, although our biodiversity is ...
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Approaches to resilience

2016
Heritage
Resilience
Report Content
The concept of resilience has not been widely applied in Australian heritage management (see ‘Resilience’ in the SoE 2011 Heritage chapter, ...
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Managing for resilience

2016
Marine environment
Resilience
Report Content
Most management systems aimed at maintaining or enhancing resilience in components of the marine environment focus on ...
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Resilience of our climate

2016
Climate
Resilience
Report Content

2016 Climate Resilience The ability of the climate system to recover from changes to the composition of the atmosphere (particularly increasing CO2 concentrations) is complicated by the fact that the removal of CO2...

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Resilience of Australia’s heritage 2016

2016
Heritage
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceThe resilience of Australia’s heritage can be considered in relation to both individual heritage places and the total heritage resource. The ability of individual places or wider resources to withstand shocks depends on the nature of specific heritage values and their...

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Overview of resilience of heritage

2016
Heritage
Resilience
Report Content
... what distinguish heritage places from other places, the resilience of heritage places may be understood as their ...
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Resilience of Australia’s climate 2016

2016
Climate
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceOur planet is somewhat resilient to increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) levels because atmospheric CO2 is absorbed by the oceans. During recent decades, the oceans have taken up approximately 25 per cent of the annual anthropogenic CO2 emissions to the atmosphere. However, the...

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Overview of resilience of coasts

2016
Coasts
Resilience
Report Content
The resilience of the coast varies markedly between areas and ...
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Overview of resilience of land

2016
Land
Resilience
Report Content

2016 Land Resilience Resilient land should be able to recover from changes, and continue to support native vegetation and natural processes, as well as allow us to use natural resources within reasonable limits....

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Overview of resilience of biodiversity

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Report Content
Resilience is a key underpinning principle of biodiversity ... at all levels of government. However, the definition of resilience in most strategies and policies is still ...
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Overview of resilience of the built environment

2016
Built environment
Resilience
Report Content
... institutional, governance and policy frameworks to build resilience in our built environment. ...
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Overview of resilience of the atmosphere

2016
Atmosphere
Resilience
Report Content
The Atmosphere report considers both the resilience of the climate system itself and the resilience of our society to climate change. ...
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Resilience of the built environment 2016

2016
Built environment
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceFor the built environment, resilience refers to the capacity of the built environment to retain or recover its structure, functions and amenity after experiencing shocks. Historically, Australian cities have coped reasonably well with disaster events such as storms or floods, and...

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Resilience of inland water environments 2016

2016
Inland water
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceA challenge in assessing resilience of inland water environments is recognising resilience when it occurs, especially because Australian ecosystems have developed to be both resistant and resilient. We can contribute to resilience by reducing extreme and detrimental ecosystem...

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Resilience of the marine environment 2016

2016
Marine environment
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceResilience can be considered to be the capacity of a system to keep functioning even when disturbed. Current understanding of the resilience of Australia’s marine environment is limited because of the vast spatial extent of Australia’s marine ecosystems, their complexity, the many...

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Resilience of Australia’s air quality 2016

2016
Ambient air quality
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceThe frequency, duration and severity of episodes of poor air quality in urban centres are influenced by short-term meteorological conditions, in combination with local topography and/or atypical emissions. Air quality is usually restored to acceptable levels once the immediate...

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Resilience of the Antarctic environment 2016

2016
Antarctic environment
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceAlthough organisms living in Antarctica have evolved to cope with severe events, it is challenging to measure their level of resilience and to predict how future climate change will affect Antarctic ecosystems. This is largely because our understanding of key parameters is still...

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Resilience of our environment and society

2016
Climate
Resilience
Report Content
The resilience of a society is dependent on the sensitivity of ...
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Overview of resilience of the marine environment

2016
Marine environment
Resilience
Report Content
Current understanding of the resilience of Australia’s marine environment is limited ... the environment across timescales relevant for assessing resilience. ...
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Overview of resilience of inland water

2016
Inland water
Resilience
Report Content
... aquatic ecosystems) have contributed to the ecological resilience of the Murray–Darling Basin. ...
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Resilience of the land environment 2016

2016
Land
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceAustralian landscapes have evolved with soils and vegetation in equilibrium with the climate and natural disturbance regime. Land management activities disturb that equilibrium. Although we may not see all of the ensuing changes, the subtle and slowly accumulating ones can be the...

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Box BIO21 Rethinking revegetation resilience

2016
Biodiversity
Resilience
Case Study
... and its partners have taken novel steps to ensure the resilience of the revegetation plantings ( Gellie et al. ... the benefits of using local species , while increasing resilience to climate change by combining seed from local ... is one of a suite of design considerations used to promote resilience in SA Water’s revegetation programs. These ...
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Resilience of the coastal environment 2016

2016
Coasts
Resilience
At a glance

At a glanceResilience of the coastal environment includes its resistance to change and its ability to recover once disturbed. Resistance to change is linked to the maintenance of high biodiversity, which is expected to provide greater redundancy in ecological functions. Resistance can also...

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