The terms sustainability, resilience and others group under the heading of ‘stability’. Their ubiquity speaks to a vital need to characterize changes in complex social and environmental systems. In a bewildering array of terms, practical measurements are essential to permit comparisons and so untangle underlying relationships.
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Pimm, S.L., Donohue, I., Montoya, J.M. et al. Measuring resilience is essential to understand it. Nat Sustain 2, 895–897 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-019-0399-7
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