Linking Resilience and Robustness and Uncovering their Trade-offs in Coupled Natural-Human Systems Robustness and resilience are concepts in systems thinking that have grown in importance and popularity.  For many complex social-ecological systems, however, robustness and resilience are difficult to quantify and the connections and trade-offs between them difficult to study.  Most studies have either focused

Examining the probability of silent circulation of polio using the endemic potential statistic Polio is a fecal-oral disease that can cause fever and flu-like symptoms, and, in more rare instances, acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). One characteristic of poliovirus is asymptomatic transmission amongst individuals who have already had a poliovirus infection. This allows the virus to

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