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Resilience Thinking : Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World.
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more con...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
Island Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page
- Copyrights Page
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Ch. 1: Living in a Complex World: An Introduction to Resilience Thinking
- Case Study 1: Carving up a National Icon
- The Florida Everglades
- Ch. 2: The System Rules: Creating a Mind Space for Resilience Thinking
- Case Study 2: Between a (Salt)Rock and a Hard Place: The Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia
- Ch. 3: Crossing the Threshold: Be Careful about the Path You Choose
- You May Not Be Able to Return
- Case Study 3: Losing the Jewel in the Crown: The Coral Reefs of the CaribbeanCh. 4: In the Loop: Phases, Cycles, and Scales
- Adaptive Cycles and How Systems Change
- Case Study 4: Scenarios on the Lakes: The Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin
- Ch. 5: Making Sense of Resilience: How Do You Apply Resilience Thinking?
- Case Study 5: Building Resilience in the Wetlands: The Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden
- Ch. 6: Creating Space in a Shrinking World: Resilience and Sustainability
- Postscript for a Resilient World
- Further Reading
- References
- GlossaryAbout the Authors
- Index