Resilience thinking : sustaining ecosystems and people in a changing world
Offers a different way of understanding the world and a fresh approach to managing resources. This work embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change and seeks to understand the qualities of a system that must be maintained or enhanced in order to achieve sustainability.
1 online resource (xvi, 174 pages) : illustrations, maps
9781429495066, 9781597266222, 9781597260930, 1429495065, 1597266221, 1597260932
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Living in a complex world : an introduction to resilience thinking
Case study 1. Carving up a national icon : the Florida Everglades
The system rules : creating a mind space for resilience thinking
Case study 2. Between a (salt) rock and a hard place : the Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia
Crossing the threshold : be careful about the path you choose, you may not be able to return
Case study 3. Losing the jewel in the crown : the coral reefs of the Caribbean
In the loop : phases, cycles and scales : adaptive cycles and how systems change
Case study 4. Scenarios on the lakes : the Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin
Making sense of resilience : how do you apply resilience thinking?
Case study 5. Building resilience in the wetlands : the Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden
Creating space in a shrinking world : resilience and sustainability
Postscript for a resilient world
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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