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whether resilience means bending to nature’s will or fi ght- resilience. We learned that no clear-cut recipe exists. Downloaded from
ing it. And they took us deep into the natural world, as Investigating it carries pitfalls—in logistics, funding,
we invited scientists to consider what makes ecosystems and culture clashes. Despite the obstacles, scientists are
on land and water resilient, and explored how organisms parsing key ingredients of resilience. Some carry policy
as diverse as tobacco plants and bacteria have prescriptions; others require an uncomfortable
evolved resilience strategies that of er lessons—or At a 2006 vigil rethinking of adaptations needed to survive.
for those who
at least metaphors—we humans could embrace. Perhaps most important, we found that this re-
died in Hurricane
One psychologist coined the term ordinary Katrina, mourners search cultivates something that’s in short sup-
magic to describe the mix of features that brews hold hands. ply these days: It breeds hope.
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