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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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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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Building adaptive capacity in a coastal region experiencing global change
Ecology and Society, 2020 Coastal ecosystems in the eastern U.S. have been severely altered by human development, and climate change and other stressors are now further degrading the capacity of those ecological and social systems to remain resilient in the face of such ...
Fred A. Johnson +3 more
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Inequalities in the adaptive cycle: reorganizing after disasters in an unequal world
Ecology and Society, 2022 Natural hazards can trigger disasters that lead to the collapse and reorganization of social-ecological systems. This reorganization can involve systems transitioning to more positive trajectories.
Marie C. Dade +6 more
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A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Ecology and Society, 2013 Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage.
Ahjond S. Garmestani +1 more
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Industrial Structure and a Tradeoff Between Productivity and Economic Resilience
Studies in Business and Economics, 2022 The structures of regional economies play a critical role in determining both a region’s productivity and its resilience to shocks. We extend previous work on the regional occupation and skills structure by analyzing the effect of a region’s industry ...
Shutters Shade T, Waters Keith
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Resilience Thinking and Landscape Complexity in the Basentello Valley (BA, MT), c. AD 300–800
Land, 2023 Archaeological data for the transformation of late Roman rural landscapes in Southern Italy over the sixth to eighth centuries AD are often meagre. This record often provides little explanatory power in the context of understanding the collapse of Roman ...
Matthew Munro
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Learning and adaptation in waterfowl conservation: By chance or by design?
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2016 The most recent revision of the North American Waterfowl Management Plan seeks to increase the adaptive capacity of the management enterprise to cope with accelerating changes in climate, land‐use patterns, agency priorities, and the waterfowl and ...
Fred A. Johnson +2 more
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