ABSTRACT
The term “resilience” was first used in psychology in the 1950s. It has been used to describe the tolerance abilities of children. The term was also used within a conglomerate of qualities that allow people to remain psychologically balanced and mentally healthy in the case of negative life circumstances and crisis (Petzold/Muller, 2002). In the recent years the term of “resilience” has gained significance in different disciplines and scientific contexts (Burkner, 2010): from approaches to human ecology and taxonomy to studies on developing countries. Whereas the resilience of an ecosystem is described by The Resilience Alliance (2002) as the capacity of an ecosystem to tolerate disturbance without collapsing into a qualitatively different state that is controlled by a different set of processes. It was also underlined that a resilient ecosystem can withstand shocks and rebuild itself when necessary. The characteristics of resilience in natural environment, which are used to measure the resilience dimensions (The Resilience Alliance, 2002):
– The amount of change the system can undergo and still retain the same controls on function and structure.
