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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Council of Scientific Unions. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
Otros Autores: Gunderson, Lance H., Pritchard, Lowell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©2002.
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].