A common currency for resilience
(World News Austria)

Image: Die Versuchsflächen im Stubaital, auf denen Michael Bahn und Johannes Ingrisch die Resilienz von bewirtschafteten und unbewirtschafteten Bergwiesen untersuchen. (Credit: Johannes Ingrisch) For several years, the ecologist Michael Bahn has been working in the field of disturbance ecology, which deals with the question of how systems react to disturbances. Resilience is a key concept in this context. Resilience consists of two aspects. On the one hand, the term describes the ability of a system to minimize the immediate effect of...