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Archaeology and rapid climate changes: from the collapse concept to a panarchy interpretative model
Documenta Praehistorica, 2015 The ‘rapid climate change’, ‘cycles of abrupt climate shift’, and ‘cold events’ in the Holocene are discussed in relation to the ‘collapse of civilisation’ concept, and adaptive cycles and the panarchy interpretative model.
Mihael Budja
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Resilience, Panarchy, and World-Systems Analysis
Ecology and Society, 2007 The paper compares two ambitious conceptual structures. The first is the understanding of social-ecological systems developed around the term "resilience," and more recently the term "panarchy," in the work of Holling, Gunderson, and others.
Nicholas M. Gotts
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Ecology and Society, 2008 Land-use change is one of the major factors affecting global environmental change and represents a primary human effect on natural systems. Taking into account the scales and patterns of human land uses as source/sink disturbance systems, we describe a ...
Nicola Zaccarelli +3 more
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Nurturing resilient forest biodiversity: nest webs as complex adaptive systems
Ecology and Society, 2020 Forests are complex adaptive systems in which properties at higher levels emerge from localized networks of many entities interacting at lower levels, allowing the development of multiple ecological pathways and processes.
José Tomás Ibarra +6 more
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Self-Organized Governance Networks for Ecosystem Management: Who Is Accountable?
Ecology and Society, 2011 Governance networks play an increasingly important role in ecosystem management. The collaboration within these governance networks can be formalized or informal, top-down or bottom-up, and designed or self-organized.
Thomas Hahn
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Ecology and Society, 2008 The concept of resilience has been widely used in the study of social-ecological systems, with its key components identified as resistance, latitude, and precariousness.
Thomas E. J. Leuteritz, Hamid R. Ekbia
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Crisis and reorganization in urban dynamics: the Barcelona, Spain, case study
Ecology and Society, 2018 We use adaptive cycle theory to improve the understanding of cycles of urban change in the city of Barcelona, Spain, from 1953 to 2016. More specifically, we explore the vulnerabilities and windows of opportunity these cycles of change introduced in the ...
Rafael De Balanzó +1 more
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Ecology and Society, 2012 This paper explores approaches of applying the panarchy perspective to a case study of natural resource management in the cultural landscape of upland alpine pastures in northern Italy.
Ian D. Soane +3 more
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Can Properties of Labor-Exchange Networks Explain the Resilience of Swidden Agriculture?
Ecology and Society, 2010 Despite the fact that swidden agriculture has been the subject of decades of research, questions remain about the extent to which it is constrained by demographic growth and if it can adapt to environmental limits.
Sean S. Downey
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L'Espace Politique, 2017 This paper presents the newly French « dike risk ». As “dike risk” is conflict-prone and contradictory-looking, it challenges previous risk understanding and management. Yet, it proves the capacity of Humankind to admit limitations found while acting, an
Patrick Pigeon
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