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Aresilience assessment begins by bringing together the stakeholders—the people with an interest or a stake in the system. Many people find the term stakeholders a bit repellent because it arose out of management speak, but we can’t think of a better one. The first stage is to work with these stakeholders to determine what the components are that make up their system and how they are connected.
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Walker, B., Salt, D. (2012). Describing the System. In: Resilience Practice. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-231-0_3
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