Resilience in ecosystemic context: evolution of the concept.
The evolution of the resilience literature across diverse social science disciplines over the past two decades is reviewed and a synthesis of recent findings is offered, suggesting that resilience is a multidetermined and ever-changing product of interacting forces within a given ecosystemic context. Emerging constructions of the concept are examined, and a refined Working definition is proposed. Implications for research and practice are offered.
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School of Social Work, College of Public Programs, Arizona State University, Temple 85286-1802, USA. margi.waller@asu.edu
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D017753:Ecosystem; D006801:Humans