On a personal level it has been found that resilience grows by coming through adversity and I think this story shows that
the resilience of this particular community has grown - and improved mental health and wellbeing for all members.
Not exact matches
What articles about the reef should convey is that it is critically important that the global
community, and Australia in
particular, take action to bolster the
resilience of the reef and maximize its natural capacity to recover.
These focus in
particular on building the capacity
of communities to adapt to climate change in ways that allow them to moderate potential damage, to take advantage
of new opportunities and to cope with the consequences
of climate change, and on enhancing the
resilience of communities and the ecosystems on which they depend.
In
particular, it presents four key messages, namely that: biodiversity is key to climate change adaptation; a different set
of policy directions, changed incentive structures, reduced or phased - out perverse subsidies, and increased engagement
of business leaders is required to work towards «holistic economics»; environmental limits need to be established to ensure society remains within them in order to achieve sustainability; and ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) is an emerging approach that works with nature to help vulnerable
communities and build
resilience to climate change.
Adaptive responses to climate change in fisheries could include: management approaches and policies that maximize
resilience of the exploited ecosystems, ensuring fishing and aquaculture
communities have the opportunity and capacity to respond to new opportunities brought about by climate change, and the use
of multi-sector adaptive strategies to reduce the consequence
of negative impacts in any
particular sector.
The objective
of the programme was to strengthen the capacities
of these countries to build ecosystem
resilience by promoting EbA options and to reduce the vulnerability
of communities, with
particular emphasis on mountain ecosystems.