Powerless Spectators, Coping Actors, and Adaptive Co-managers: a Synthesis of the Role of Communities in Ecosystem Management

We provide a synthesis of the papers in the Special Issue, the Communities Ecosystems and Livelihoods component of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), and other recent publications on the adaptive capacity of communities and their role in ecosystem management. Communities adapt because they fa...

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Main Authors: Christo Fabricius, Carl Folke, Georgina Cundill, Lisen Schultz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2007-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art29/