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Title Navigating social-ecological systems : building resilience for complexity and change / edited by Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, and Carl Folke
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description xxi, 393 p. : il., mapas
Contents Foreword: The backloop to sustainability / C.S. Holling -- 1. Introduction / Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding and Carl Folke -- pt. I. Perspectives on resilience -- 2. Adaptive dancing: interactions between social resilience and ecological crises / Lance H. Gunderson -- 3. Nature and society through the lens of resilience: toward a human-in-ecosystem perspective / Iain J. Davidson-Hunt and Fikret Berkes -- 4. Redundancy and diversity: do they influence optimal management? / Bobbi Low, Elinor Ostrom, Carl Simon and James Wilson -- pt. II. Building resilience in local management systems -- 5. The strategy of the commons: history and property rights in central Sweden / Lars Carlsson -- 6. Management practices for building adaptive capacity: a case from northern Tanzania / Maria Tengo and Monica Hammer -- 7. Living with disturbance: building resilience in social-ecological systems / Johan Colding, Thomas Elmqvist and Per Olsson -- pt. III. Social-ecological learning and adaptation -- 8. Exploring the role of local ecological knowledge in ecosystem management: three case studies / Madhav Gadgil, Per Olsson, Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke -- 9. Facing the adaptive challenge: practitioners' insights from negotiating resource crises in Minnesota / Kristen Blann, Steve Light and Jo Ann Musumeci -- 10. Caribou co-management in northern Canada: fostering multiple ways of knowing / Anne Kendrick -- pt. IV. Cross-scale institutional response to change -- 11. Dynamics of social-ecological changes in a lagoon fishery in southern Brazil / Cristiana S. Seixas and Fikret Berkes -- 12. Keeping ecological resilience afloat in cross-scale turbulence: an indigenous social movement navigates change in Indonesia / Janis B. Alcorn, John Bamba, Stefanus Masiun, Ita Natalia and Antoinette G. Royo -- 13. Policy transformations in the US forest sector, 1970-2000: implications for sustainable use and resilience / Ronald L. Trosper -- 14. Synthesis: building resilience and adaptive capacity in social-ecological systems / Carl Folke, Johan Colding and Fikret Berkes
Summary Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how linked social-ecological systems build capacity to adapt to uncertainty and change. This book merges forefront research from different disciplines, with case studies from several geographic areas, cultures and resource types, into a common framework for new insights on sustainability
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Subject Human ecology -- Philosophy
Ecosystem management
Environmental policy
Sustainable development
System theory
Resilience (Ecology)
Social ecology
Social ecology -- Congresses
environmental policy.
sustainable development.
human ecology.
Ecosystem management.
Environmental policy.
Human ecology -- Philosophy.
Resilience (Ecology)
Social ecology.
Sustainable development.
System theory.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Berkes, Fikret
Colding, Johan
Folke, Carl
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