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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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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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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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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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Panarchy: Theory and Application
Ecosystems, 2014 The concept of panarchy provides a framework that characterizes complex systems of people and nature as dynamically organized and structured within and across scales of space and time. It has been more than a decade since the introduction of panarchy. Over this period, its invocation in peer-reviewed literature has been steadily increasing, but its use
Allen, Craig R. +4 more
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract It is clear that contemporary management education (ME) needs to be transformed to tackle complex social‐ecological crises effectively. However, the concept of transformation is often ill‐defined in the context of ME; while there is also a lack of understanding about what concrete transformation trajectories (also called scaling pathways) are ...
Laura A. Colombo
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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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Interlocking panarchies in multi-use boreal forests in Sweden
Ecology and Society, 2010 This paper uses northern Sweden as a case study of a multi-use social-ecological system, in which forestry and reindeer husbandry interact as different land use forms in the same area.
Jon Moen, E. Carina H. Keskitalo
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Ecology and Society, 2020 We used the adaptive cycle as a heuristic to conceptualize the changes in ecosystem services between its phases (growth, conservation, collapse, and reorganization) for Chiloé Island (southern Chile), analyzed as a social-ecological system.
Daniela C. Pérez-Orellana +2 more
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