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Table 1 Resilience features and concepts

From: Food system resilience: ontology development and impossible trinities

Resilience features

Example concept

Resilience of what

Agricultural systems, food systems, ecosystem, social–ecological systems, information systems, networks, livestock, cities, supply chain, farmers, countries

Measuring resilience

Risk, equilibrium, indicator, capacity, capability

Managing resilience

Risk reduction, policy, transition, strategies

Resilience to what (disturbances)

Environmental, economic, political, technological

Properties of resilience

Transformability, panarchy, adaptability, recovery, restoration, robustness

Resilience for what purpose

Wellbeing, sustainability, persistence

Lack of resilience

Insecurity, vulnerability, collapse

Source of resilience

Redundancy, flexibility, innovation, learning, diversity, biodiversity