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Linking resilience and robustness and uncovering their trade-offs in coupled infrastructure systems
Mehran Homayounfar
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of
Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of
Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
John M. Anderies
School of Sustainability and School of Human Evolution and Social
Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA
Chitsomanus P. Muneepeerakul
independent researcher, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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For many complex social-ecological systems, robustness and resilience are difficult to quantify and the connections and trade-offs between them difficult to study. In this study, we present an analytical framework to address the linkage between robustness and resilience more systematically. The results reveal the trade-offs between robustness and resilience. They also show how the nature of such trade-offs varies with the choices of certain policies, internal stresses, and external disturbances.
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