This document presents a preliminary vision for landscape resilience across the streams, hills, baylands, and urban areas of Silicon Valley. It is a product of Resilient Silicon Valley, a project of the San Francisco Estuary Institute to create a science-based vision for ecosystem health and resilience in Silicon Valley (resilientsv.sfei.org).

The vision outlined here was developed by applying a set of resilience principles (Beller et al. 2015) to Silicon Valley, in collaboration with a team of regional science advisors, to identify landscape elements that are likely to...

The Landscape Resilience Framework is designed to facilitate application of resilience principles to ecosystem management by detailing the seven dimensions of a landscape that contribute to resilience. It represents a synthesis of thinking across empirical ecological studies and social-ecological resilience theory, and was reviewed by a team of expert advisors. Our goal was to create a concise and comprehensive set of key considerations that could be integrated into identifying on-the-ground actions across urban design, conservation planning, and ecosystem management that would contribute...