Resilience & Resistance

Resilience is when you are able to return after something has affected your performance or ability. Resistance is when you are able to stop something from affecting your performance or ability. I think both of these characteristics are very important to natural resources. When it comes to managing our natural resources we must think about what decisions and steps are going to keep it present, available, and healthy for generations to come. If we look at a resource in terms of resilience we need to identify what is the resource able to sustain and still continue to be present, available, and healthy. When we look at a resource in terms of resistance, we need to identify how we can help the resource maintain resistance or gain resistance so that certain events do not hurt or destroy it.