ABSTRACT
This chapter provides similarities and differences between sustainability and resilience. In the concept of sustainability the future is shaped by specific limits, namely the capacity and availability of resources on the one planet we all inhabit, including the sun's energy. Resilience in ecology is the study of inexorable change and more or less avoidable situations. Sustainability is also about change but here it is human beings deciding how to change the way things are done so that society can survive within the resources available. Resilience and sustainability deal with problems that link people, resources and institutions. Sustainability and resilience study the interrelationship between humans and the physical environment using ecosystem models, as an integrated way of understanding natural processes. Sustainability has the goal of ensuring human survival in some form but resilience is the property of a system, not a goal in itself.
