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Resilience Alliance

organisation founded in 1999

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 7, 2023
Entity authorityQ7315548
Source-derived summary

The Resilience Alliance is an interdisciplinary network of scientists and practitioners that analyze the integrated dynamic of people and nature from a social-ecological system perspective. It was established in 1999 and is supported by an international network of member institutions that includes universities, government, and non-government agencies. The Resilience Alliance publishes the journal Ecology and Society.

In 2007, the Resilience Alliance Young Scholars (RAYS) was established under Resilience Alliance. This network was established with a purpose of developing the next generation of resilience scientists from around the world.

Editorial summary

“Resilience Alliance” enters the record as organisation founded in 1999. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Resilience, Alliance and organisation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Resilience, Alliance and organisation.
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Why this record matters

“Resilience Alliance” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Resilience, Alliance and organisation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 7, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7315548. VIAF identifies the subject as 122448341. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from Resilience Alliance” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.