Future Options Redundancy Planning: Designing Multiple Pathways to Resilience in Urban and Landscape Systems Facing Complex Change
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Social-Ecological Context and Engagement
2.1. Co-Management
2.2. Place-Based Engagement
2.3. Eco-Civic Engagement
2.4. Urban and Landscape Engagement
3. Restorative Social Ecology for Changing Urban Landscapes
3.1. Social Feedbacks
3.2. Novel SES Communities
3.3. Nature-Positive Options and Futures
4. Restorative Futures for Social-Ecological Systems
4.1. SES Feedbacks
4.2. Alternative Landscape Futures
4.3. SES Foresight
5. Summary and Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Brunckhorst, D.J.; Trammell, E.J. Future Options Redundancy Planning: Designing Multiple Pathways to Resilience in Urban and Landscape Systems Facing Complex Change. Urban Sci. 2023, 7, 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7010011
Brunckhorst DJ, Trammell EJ. Future Options Redundancy Planning: Designing Multiple Pathways to Resilience in Urban and Landscape Systems Facing Complex Change. Urban Science. 2023; 7(1):11. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7010011
Chicago/Turabian StyleBrunckhorst, David J., and E. Jamie Trammell. 2023. "Future Options Redundancy Planning: Designing Multiple Pathways to Resilience in Urban and Landscape Systems Facing Complex Change" Urban Science 7, no. 1: 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7010011
APA StyleBrunckhorst, D. J., & Trammell, E. J. (2023). Future Options Redundancy Planning: Designing Multiple Pathways to Resilience in Urban and Landscape Systems Facing Complex Change. Urban Science, 7(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci7010011