Resilience and the behavior of large scale systems /
Scientists and researchers concerned with the behavior of large ecosystems have focused in recent years on the concept of "resilience." Traditional perspectives held that ecological systems exist close to a steady state and resilience is the ability of the system to return rapidly to that...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
Island Press,
©2002.
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Colección: | SCOPE report ;
60. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Resilience of large-scale resource systems / Lance H. Gunderson [and others]
- Models and metaphors of sustainability, stability, and resilience / Donald Ludwig, Brian H. Walker, and C.S. Holling
- Resilience and the restoration of lakes / Stephen R. Carpenter and Kathryn L. Cottingham
- The Baltic Sea: reversibly unstable or irreversibly stable? / Bengt-Owe Jansson and AnnMari Jansson
- Resilience of coral reefs / Tim R. McClanahan, Nicholas V.C. Polunin, and Terry J. Done
- Resilience in wet landscapes of Southern Florida / Lance H. Gunderson and Carl J. Walters
- Ecological resilience in grazed rangelands: a generic case study / Brian H. Walker
- Resilience of tropical wet and dry forests in Puerto Rico / Ariel Lugo [and others]
- Forest dynamics in the Southeastern United States: managing multiple stable states / Garry D. Peterson
- A summary and synthesis of resilience in large-scale systems / Lance H. Gunderson [and others].