What are four characteristics of ecosystems that contribute to their resilience and relationship between resilience and sustainability of ecological economic systems?
The critical aspects of resilience are latitude, resistance, precariousness, and panarchy. Resilience as a descriptive concept gives insight into the dynamic properties of an ecological-economic system. Sustainability as a normative concept captures basic ideas of inter generational justice when human well-being depends on natural capital and services.
As well as two blogs http://www.urbanresilienceresearch.net/2016/04/20/how-resilient-is-resilience and https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/keep-resilience-language-simple
One similarity is that sustainability and resilience both refer to the state of a system or feature over time, focusing on the persistence of that system under normal operating conditions and in response to disturbances. Ecological sustainability requires that the allocation of economic resources should not result in the instability of the economy environment system as a whole. While sustainability looks at how current generations can meet their needs without compromising that ability for future generations, resilience considers a system's ability to prepare for threats, to absorb impacts, and to recover and adapt after disruptive events. Ecological sustainability as the maintenance or restoration of the composition, structure, and processes of ecosystems including the diversity of plant and animal communities and the productive capacity of ecological systems. Ecological resilience, also called ecological robustness, the ability of an ecosystem to maintain its normal patterns of nutrient cycling and biomass production after being subjected to damage caused by an ecological disturbance. Economic sustainability is all about giving people what they want without compromising the quality of life, especially in the developing world. Environmental sustainability: It is the process of meeting the needs of air, food, water, and shelter as well as ensuring that the environment is neither affected nor polluted. Some factors that increase resilience include the species richness of the ecosystem, ecological redundancy of species within the ecosystem, and higher humidity levels. The source, persistence, and intensity of the stressor can also impact resilience. The main and most important factors in ecosystem resilience are namely: redundancy and modularity. Ecological redundancy is the functional compensation due to several species which perform similar functions in an ecosystem. Modularity is defined as the interconnectedness of the components of a system.