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... It corresponds with the idea of adaptive resilience identified by some researchers [43,44]. Many different tactics match this strategy, such as learning by doing, public participation, forward-looking planning, co-deciding, and negotiation [45,48,56,57,[67][68][69]. One example is the establishment of an independent review committee facilitating information access to the public [70]. ...
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