TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gunderson,Lance H.
AU  - Holling,C.S.
TI  - Panarchy: understanding transformations in human and natural systems 
SN  - 1559638567
AV  - GF49 .P365 2002
U1  - 304.2 23
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Island Press
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Political ecology
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Biotic communities
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Ecosystem management
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-488) and index; In quest of a theory of adaptive change / C.S. Holling, Lance H. Gunderson, and Donald Ludwig -- Resilience and adaptive cycles / C.S. Holling, and Lance H. Gunderson -- Sustainability and panarchies / C.H. Holling, Lance H. Gunderson, and Garry D. Peterson -- Why systems of people and nature are not just social and ecological systems / Frances Westley ... [et al.] -- Back to the future: ecosystem dynamics and local knowledge / Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke -- The dynamics of political discourse in seeking sustainability / Lowell Pritchard, Jr. and Steven E. Sanderson -- Collapse, learning, and renewal / Stephen R. Carpenter, William A. Brock and Donald Ludwig -- Dynamics interaction of societies and ecosystems: linking theories from ecology, economy, and sociology / Marten Scheffer ... [et al.] -- A future of surprises / Marco A. Janssen -- Resilience and sustainability: the economic analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems / William A. Brock, Karl-Göran Mäler and Charles Perrings -- Resilient rangelands: adaptation in complex systems / Brian Walker and Nick Abel -- Surprises and sustainability: cycles of renewal in the Everglades / Lance H. Gunderson, C.S. Holling, and Garry D. Peterson -- The devil in the dynamics: adaptive management on the front lines / Frances Westley -- Planning for resilience: scenarios, surprises, and branch points / Gilberto C. Gallopín -- Discoveries for sustainable futures / C.S. Holling ... [et al.] -- Toward an integrative synthesis / Ralf Yorque ... [et al.] -- A model for ecosystems with alternative stable states -- Optimizing social utility from lake use -- Tax as a way to direct society -- Collective action problems and their effect on political power
N2  - "Creating institutions to meet the challenge of sustainability is arguably the most important task confronting society; it is also dauntingly complex. Ecological, economic, and social elements all play a role, but despite ongoing efforts, researchers have yet to succeed in integrating the various disciplines in a way that gives adequate representation to the insights of each.Panarchy, a term devised to describe evolving hierarchical systems with multiple interrelated elements, offers an important new framework for understanding and resolving this dilemma. Panarchy is the structure in which systems, including those of nature (e.g., forests) and of humans (e.g., capitalism), as well as combined human-natural systems (e.g., institutions that govern natural resource use such as the Forest Service), are interlinked in continual adaptive cycles of growth, accumulation, restructuring, and renewal. These transformational cycles take place at scales ranging from a drop of water to the biosphere, over periods from days to geologic epochs. By understanding these cycles and their scales, researchers can identify the points at which a system is capable of accepting positive change, and can use those leverage points to foster resilience and sustainability within the system.This volume brings together leading thinkers on the subject -- including Fikret Berkes, Buz Brock, Steve Carpenter, Carl Folke, Lance Gunderson, C.S. Holling, Don Ludwig, Karl-Goran Maler, Charles Perrings, Marten Scheffer, Brian Walker, and Frances Westley -- to develop and examine the concept of panarchy and to consider how it can be applied to human, natural, and human-natural systems. Throughout, contributors seek to identify adaptive approaches to management that recognize uncertainty and encourage innovation while fostering resilience.The book is a fundamental new development in a widely acclaimed line of inquiry. It represents the first step in integrating disciplinary knowledge for the adaptive management of human-natural systems across widely divergent scales, and offers an important base of knowledge from which institutions for adaptive management can be developed. It will be an invaluable source of ideas and understanding for students, researchers, and professionals involved with ecology, conservation biology, ecological economics, environmental policy, or related fields."--Publisher description
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