Complex Land Systems: the Need for Long Time Perspectives to Assess their Future

The growing awareness about the need to anticipate the future of land systems focuses on how well we understand the interactions between society and environmental processes within a complexity framework. A major barrier to understanding is insufficient attention given to long (multidecadal) temporal...

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Main Authors: John A. Dearing, Ademola K. Braimoh, Anette Reenberg, Billie L. Turner, Sander van der Leeuw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2010-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss4/art21/