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Resilience and Resistance Are Not Mutually Exclusive

Resilience is often understood as the capacity to adapt to difficult circumstances rather than as a form of resistance to existing structures. A new study by scientists from the Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ (RIFS) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya challenges this assumption.…

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