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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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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Digital resilience in higher education [PDF]
, 2013 Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these ...
Anderson, Terry, Weller, Martin
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Manufacturing and the Science of Sustainability [PDF]
, 2011 A new area, called Sustainability Science, is engaging large system scientists to address the challenges that face the future of human society on planet earth.
Gutowski, Timothy G.
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Conserving and restoring old growth in frequent-fire forests: Cycles of disruption and recovery [PDF]
, 2007 I provide a synthesis of the papers in the Special Issue, The Conservation and Restoration of Old Growth in Frequent-fire Forests of the American West.
Egan, Dave
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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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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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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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Toward a measure of social-ecological resilience for human communities [PDF]
, 2010 The purpose of this essay is to clarify the theoretical understanding of the concept of resilience in order to explore problems surrounding the empirical measurement and application of the concept, as well as to examine strategic examples of empirical ...
Dillard, Maria
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The value of theoretical multiplicity for steering transitions towards sustainability [PDF]
, 2009 Transition management, as a theory of directing structural societal changes towards sustainable system innovations, has become a major topic in scientific research over the last years.
Breeman, G.E. +4 more
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