Navigating social-ecological systems : building resilience for complexity and change / edited by Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding, and Carl Folke.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Description: xxi, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject(s):

DDC classification:

304.2 21

LOC classification:

HM861 N38 2002

Contents:

1. Introduction / Fikret Berkes, Johan Colding and Carl Folke Pt. I. Perspectives on Resilience 2. Adaptive dancing / Lance Gunderson 3. Nature and society through the lens of resilience / Iain J. Davidson-Hunt and Fikret Berkes 4. Redundancy and diversity / Bobbi Low, Elinor Ostrom, Carl Simon and James Wilson Pt. II. Building Resilience in Local Management Systems 5. The strategy of the commons / Lars Carlsson 6. Management practices for building adaptive capacity / Maria Teng ̲and Monica Hammer 7. Living with disturbance / Johan Colding, Per Olsson and Thomas Elmqvist Pt. III. Social-ecological Learning and Adaption 8. Exploring the role of local ecological knowledge in ecosystem management / Madhav Gadgil, Per Olsson, Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke 9. Facing the adaptive challenge / Kristen Blann, Steve Light and Jo Ann Musumeci 10. Caribou co-management in northern Canada / Anne Kendrick Pt. IV. Cross-scale Institutional Response to Change 11. Dynamics of social-ecological changes in a lagoon fishery in southern Brazil / Cristiana Seixas and Fikret Berkes 12. Keeping ecological resilience afloat in cross-scale turbulence / Janis Alcorn, John Bamba, Stefanus Masiun, Ita Natalia and Antoinette Royo 13. Policy transformations in the US Forest Sector, 1970-2000 / Ronald L. Trosper 14. Synthesis / Carl Folke, Johan Colding and Fikret Berkes.

Review: "In the effort towards sustainability, it has become increasingly important to develop new conceptual frames to understand the dynamics of social and ecological systems. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is central in this context. Resilient social-ecological systems have the potential to sustain development by responding to and shaping change in a manner that does not lead to loss of future options. Resilient systems also provide capacity for renewal and innovation in the face of rapid transformation and crisis. The term navigating in the title is meant to capture this dynamic process. Case studies and examples from several geographic areas, cultures and resource types are included, merging forefront research from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities into a common framework for new insights on sustainability." -- BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"In the effort towards sustainability, it has become increasingly important to develop new conceptual frames to understand the dynamics of social and ecological systems. Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is central in this context. Resilient social-ecological systems have the potential to sustain development by responding to and shaping change in a manner that does not lead to loss of future options. Resilient systems also provide capacity for renewal and innovation in the face of rapid transformation and crisis. The term navigating in the title is meant to capture this dynamic process. Case studies and examples from several geographic areas, cultures and resource types are included, merging forefront research from natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities into a common framework for new insights on sustainability." -- BOOK JACKET.

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