A Handful of Heuristics and Some Propositions for Understanding Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems

This paper is a work-in-progress account of ideas and propositions about resilience in social-ecological systems. It articulates our understanding of how these complex systems change and what determines their ability to absorb disturbances in either their ecological or their social domains. We call...

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Main Authors: Brian Walker, Lance Gunderson, Ann Kinzig, Carl Folke, Steve Carpenter, Lisen Schultz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2006-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art13/