Measuring resilience is essential if we are to understand it.

Authors :: Pimm SL
Donohue I
Montoya JM
Loreau M
Source :: Nature sustainability [Nat Sustain] 2019 Oct; Vol. 2 (10), pp. 895-897. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Oct 09.
Publication Year :: 2019
Abstract: "Sustainability", "resilience", and other terms group under the heading of "stability." Their ubiquity speaks to a vital need to characterise 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.