Furthermore, she says, because they might be strong enough to reproduce successfully in stressed environments, resilient species like M. capitata could eventually dominate reefs.
In this weeks feature, a companion to Science magazine's special issue "Dealing with Disasters," we meet several scientists with fascinating careers and career plans: a technologist working on earthquake-monitoring systems, an epidemiologist investigating the post-disaster mitigation, and an engineer working on making the built environment more resilient.
Therefore, it is particularly relevant to develop interventions specifically addressed to students and foster supportive environments and resilient communities.
Creating enabling environments for resilient communities and societies to emerge will require a long-term, adaptive engagement and necessitate new approaches to funding in such settings.
This way the entire city becomes independent of rising water levels; it even becomes a stronger and more resilient environment than without the design solutions.
The same participant further claimed that their service provider's "environment is so resilient that downtime just doesn't occur" (PAR#17).
From the building industry's standpoint, design for sustainable aging implies creating the physical and service environment that is resilient and adaptable to the needs associated with the aging process.
But then the Great Smokies demonstrated something to me that I so easily forget when I dwell solely on human's degradation of the environment: nature is resilient, when given the chance.
The Queensland University of Technology lecturer in sustainable development foresees a future in which cities are more like natural environments, functional and resilient, protecting inhabitants from weather, pollution and viruses, while minimising their carbon footprint.
Managers in local government can create more resilient environments by providing their teams with manageable workloads and deadlines, engaging them in critical decision-making, ensuring reasonable autonomy and flexibility in how and where they do their job, creating clear goals and a sense of direction and providing social support or a safety net when things go wrong or staff are not coping.
