Linking social and ecological systems
Subtitle: management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience
By: edited by Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke ; and with the editorial assistance of Johan Colding.
Contributors: Berkes, Fikret.; Folke, Carl.; Colding, Johan.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
Subjects: Human ecology; Social ecology; Social systems; Ecosystem management; Sustainable development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: People, refugia, and resilience / Madhav Gadgil, Natabar Shyam Hemam, and B. Mohan Reddy; title: Learning by fishing: practical engagement and environmental concerns / Gísli Pálsson; title: Dalecarlia in central Sweden before 1800: a society of social stability and ecological resilience / Ulf Sporrong; title: Indigenous knowledge and resource management systems in the Canadian subarctic / Fikret Berkes; title: Resilience and neo-traditional populations: the caiçaras (Atlantic Forest) and the caboclos (Amazon, Brazil) / Alpina Begossi; title: Indigenous African resource management of a tropical rainforest ecosystem: a case study of the Yoruba of Ara, Nigeria / D. Michael Warren and Jennifer Pinkston; title: Managing for human and ecological context in the Maine soft-shell clam industry / Susan S. Hanna; title: Resilient resource management in Mexico's forest ecosystems: the contribution of property rights / Janis B. Alcorn and Victor M. Toledo; title: The resilience of pastoral herding in Sahelian Africa / Maryam Niamir-Fuller; title: Reviving the social system-ecosystem links in the Himalayas / Narpat S. Jodha; title: Crossing the threshold of ecosystem resilience: the commercial extinction of northern cod / A. Christopher Finlayson and Bonnie J. McCay; title: Science, sustainability, and resource management / C.S. Holling, Fikret Berkes, and Carl Folke; title: Integrated management of a temperate montane forest ecosystem through wholistic forestry: a British Columbia example / Evelyn Pinkerton; title: Managing chaotic fisheries / James A. Acheson, James A. Wilson, and Robert S. Steneck; title: Ecological practices and social mechanisms for building resilience and sustainability / Carl Folke, Fikret Berkes, and Johan Colding.