Resilience is widely seen as a desirable system property in environmental management. This paper explores the concept of resilience to natural hazards, using weather-related hazards in coastal megacities as an example. The paper draws on the wide literature on megacities, coastal hazards, hazard risk reduction strategies, and resilience within environmental management. Some analysts define resi...

Temporary streams in California and other Mediterranean climate areas are among the aquatic habitats most altered by human actions and invasions of alien species. They typically support novel ecosystems, defined as ecosystems dominated by new combinations of organisms in highly altered habitats. While these new ecosystems have many attributes of ecosystems they replaced, often including native ...