Resilience Thinking
Subtitle: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World
Contributors: Walter Reid (Foreword)
Publisher: Island Press
Published: August 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781597260930
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Management; Environmental Protection; Nature; Sustainable development; Nature/Ecology; Natural Resources; Ecology; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature / Ecology; Science / System Theory; Human Ecology
Table of contents: title: Living in a Complex World: An Introduction to Resilience Thinking; title: The System Rules: Creating a Mind Space for Resilience Thinking; title: Crossing the Threshold: Be Careful about the Path You Choose -- You May Not Be Able to Return; title: In the Loop: Phases, Cycles, and Scales -- Adaptive Cycles and How Systems Change; title: Making Sense of Resilience: How Do You Apply Resilience Thinking?; title: Creating Space in a Shrinking World: Resilience and Sustainability