Resistance and Resilience

resistance-"the ability not to be affected by something, especially adversely"

resilience- "the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness"

These two term in my opinion are very useful when thinking about natural resource issues. When taking away from an environment for economic reasons, it is important to make sure that the species  that is being removed can also be resilient enough to recover and resistant enough to not be affected to much by the loss over volume. When we are working with natural resources it is important to make sure that they are renewable and "resilience and resistance" are two major factor on whether or not a resource will be able to handle being harvested and at what level they can be harvested. 

Because these terms are very broad it is hard to pin down the exact meaning of them. This being said it also helpful when working in terms of ecology. There are many reasons why resistance and resilience are important depending on how you look at them. 

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