| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 507 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
In quest of a theory of adaptive change / C.S. Holling, Lance H. Gunderson, and Donald Ludwig -- Resilience and adaptive cycles / C.S. Holling, and Lance H. Gunderson -- Sustainability and panarchies / C.H. Holling, Lance H. Gunderson, and Garry D. Peterson -- Why systems of people and nature are not just social and ecological systems / Frances Westley [and others] -- Back to the future: ecosystem dynamics and local knowledge / Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke -- The dynamics of political discourse in seeking sustainability / Lowell Pritchard, Jr. and Steven E. Sanderson -- Collapse, learning, and renewal / Stephen R. Carpenter, William A. Brock and Donald Ludwig -- Dynamics interaction of societies and ecosystems: linking theories from ecology, economy, and sociology / Marten Scheffer [and others] -- A future of surprises / Marco A. Janssen -- Resilience and sustainability: the economic analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems / William A. Brock, Karl-Göran Mäler and Charles Perrings -- Resilient rangelands: adaptation in complex systems / Brian Walker and Nick Abel -- Surprises and sustainability: cycles of renewal in the Everglades / Lance H. Gunderson, C.S. Holling, and Garry D. Peterson -- The devil in the dynamics: adaptive management on the front lines / Frances Westley -- Planning for resilience: scenarios, surprises, and branch points / Gilberto C. Gallopín -- Discoveries for sustainable futures / C.S. Holling [and others] -- Toward an integrative synthesis / Ralf Yorque [and others] -- A model for ecosystems with alternative stable states -- Optimizing social utility from lake use -- Tax as a way to direct society -- Collective action problems and their effect on political power |
| Summary |
Creating institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is arguably the most important task confronting society; it is also dauntingly complex. Ecological, economic, and social elements all play a role, but despite ongoing efforts, researchers have yet to succeed in integrating the various disciplines in a way that gives adequate representation to the insights of each. Panarchy, a term devised to describe evolving hierarchical systems with multiple interrelated elements, offers an important new framework for understanding and resolving this dilemma. Panarchy is the structure in which systems, including those of nature (e.g., forests) and of humans (e.g., capitalism), as well as combined human-natural systems (e.g., institutions that govern natural resource use such as the Forest Service), are interlinked in continual adaptive cycles of growth, accumulation, restructuring, and renewal. These transformational cycles take place at scales ranging from a drop of water to the biosphere, over periods from days to geologic epochs. By understanding these cycles and their scales, researchers can identify the points at which a system is capable of accepting positive change, and can use those leverage points to foster resilience and sustainability within the system |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-488) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Human ecology -- Philosophy
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Political ecology.
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Social ecology.
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
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Biotic communities.
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Environmental degradation.
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Environmental policy.
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Ecosystem management.
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Sustainable development.
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Social Environment
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human ecology.
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environmental policy.
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sustainable development.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Sustainable development
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Biotic communities
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Ecosystem management
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Environmental degradation
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Environmental policy
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Human ecology -- Philosophy
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Nature -- Effect of human beings on
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Political ecology
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Social ecology
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Humanökologie
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Politische Ökologie
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Sozialökologie
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Umweltpolitik
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Gesellschaft
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Ökosystem
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Economische groei.
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Sociale ontwikkeling.
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Ecosystemen.
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Instituties.
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Aufsatzsammlung.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Gunderson, Lance H.
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Holling, C. S.
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| LC no. |
2001006112 |
| ISBN |
9781597262613 |
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1597262617 |
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9781597269391 |
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1597269395 |
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