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Ecology and Society, 2009 In this paper, we review the empirical evidence of discontinuous distributions in complex systems within the context of panarchy theory and discuss the significance of discontinuities for understanding emergent properties such as resilience.
Ahjond S. Garmestani +2 more
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Developing a panarchy model of landscape conservation and management of alpine-mountain grassland in Northern Italy. [PDF]
This paper explores methods of applying resilience theory to a case study of natural resource management and the cultural landscape of upland and alpine pasture in northern Italy.
Alessandro Gretter +5 more
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Approaches to managing disturbance and change: Resilience, vulnerability and adaptability [PDF]
, 2014 The concepts of resilience, vulnerability and adaptability have been used for a long time by several disciplines in relation to the characteristics of a system regarding its ability to react to a changing surrounding. Studies on the ecological resilience
Callo-Concha, Daniel
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Between resistance and resilience: a study of flood risk management in the Don catchment area (UK) [PDF]
, 2018 The river Don catchment area in Sheffield and Rotherham offers a good place for a case study of flood risk management, given the impact of a flooding event in 2007 and the way in which local events have become entwined with national and international ...
Goodchild, Barry +2 more
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Panarchy rules: rethinking resilience of agroecosystems, evidence from Dutch dairy-farming [PDF]
Resilience has been growing in importance as a perspective for governing social-ecological systems. The aim of this paper is first to analyze a well-studied human dominated agroecosystem using five existing key heuristics of the resilience perspective ...
Apeldoorn, D.F., van +3 more
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Making Adaptive Resilience Real [PDF]
, 2010 This publication focuses on developing understanding and debate about adaptive resilience, and increasing sectoral understanding of its importance through experimentation and sharing of best ...
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Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2009 Soil zoology and soil ecology have become very active fields of research since the early 1990s. A search in the ISI Web of Science databases showed a steady increase in publications about that theme over the last two decades, and 3,612 bibliographic ...
Patrick Lavelle
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Re-thinking revolution: a systems approach to sustaining democracy [PDF]
In late 2013 an interview with Russell Brand went viral. He gained widespread attention for asserting that we should stop voting at elections as it legitimises a failing political system.
James Tonson
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Is conceptual vagueness an asset? Resilience research from the perspective of philosophy of science [PDF]
I analyze the research on social-ecological resilience from the perspective of philosophy of science in three steps. First, I explore to what degree resilience research exhibits conceptual vagueness.
Sebastian Strunz
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Urban Resilience Thinking for Municipalities [PDF]
, 2014 This document was prepared as a contribution to the Department of Science and Technology’s (DST’s) Grand Challenge on Global Change and as a complement to flagship initiatives such as the South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas project (Archer, et al.,
Bobbins, Kerry +6 more
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