Linking Social and Ecological Systems
Subtitle: Management Practices and Social Mechanisms for Building Resilience
Contributors: Johan Colding (Assistant); Fikret Berkes (Editor); Carl Folke (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780521591409
Subjects: Ecological science, the Biosphere; Science/Mathematics; Environmental Studies; Environmental Sociology; Social systems; Nature; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Human Ecology; Environmental Science; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Biology; Science-Environmental Science; Science-Life Sciences - Biology - General; Ecology; Social ecology; Sustainable development; Ecosystem management
First sentence: There is much evidence of poor management of ecosystems; the conventional prescriptions of resource management are in many cases not resulting in sustainability.