To get to Mount Yasur is a bottom-aching, two-hour drive in a resilient old Land Rover across tracks that could barely be more impassable if they had been designed specifically to obstruct.
The paper concludes with five general lessons: (1) forest peasants are highly resilient to land scarcity; (2) forests play an overlooked role in agricultural intensification; (3) the 'modal' forest farmer does not exist; (4) early land endowment is key to understanding farmer land use and poverty dynamics; and, (5) swidden forests are social landscapes.
Not only do the mangroves serve as a physical barrier to absorb storm surges, but the replanting helps build the case for more resilient overall land-use and urban development that protects urban flood plains.
They swim back and forth across entire oceans, are incredibly resilient, occupy both land and sea, yet are harmed by so many of our activities--from our plastic pollution and coastal development to our shrimp dinners.
Other restoration and conservation goals may include development of plant communities resilient to climate and land use change [10], which will require a much more complete understanding of the ecological genomics of species such as A. gerardii [11], [12],[13], including the role of disease resistance genes.
In earlier work in the Indus Basin, Zia and Glantz (2012), based upon multiple stakeholder workshops with local policy-making and planning agencies, scientists, and civil society organizations, identified a range of policy and governance challenges for designing resilient risk management and land-use planning approaches.
Within countries, in particular in developing countries, lack of investment funding and adaptive capacity poses perilous challenges to prepare and plan for implementation of a climate-resilient development and land-use planning agenda.
The ability to cultivate efficient and resilient perennial crops on marginal land, thus bypassing the food vs fuel debate and maximising land-use, is essential for the future of agriculture [ 7].
The Yazidis are a tiny, beleaguered, resilient minority in a hostile land, and a history of oppression has made them insular.
"You are looking at this group that's making headways, it's got the attention, it has land, it has resilient funding sources, it attracted fighters from 80 countries and is at the vanguard of global jihad, so you can't ignore it," Tom Sanderson, co-director of the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told VICE News.
