摘要：We present a resilience-based approach for assessing sustainability in a sub-catchment ofthe Murray-Darling Basin in southeast Australia. We define the regional system and identify the mainissues, drivers, and potential shocks, then assess both specified and general resilience. The current state ofthe system is a consequence of changes in resource use. We identify ten known or possible biophysical,economic, and social thresholds operating at different scales, with possible knock-on effects between them.Crossing those thresholds may result in irreversible changes in goods and services generated by the region.Changes in resilience, in general, reflect a pattern of past losses with some signs of recent improvements.Interventions in the system for managing resilience are constrained by current governance, and attentionneeds to be paid to the roles and capacities of the various institutions. An overview of the current state ofthe system and likely future trends suggests that transformational change in the region be seriouslyconsidered
关键词：integrated assessment of regional resilience; interventions to support specific and general;resilience; threshold interactions and cascades
