Resilience and Regime Shifts: Assessing Cascading Effects

Most accounts of thresholds between alternate regimes involve a single, dominant shift defined by one, often slowly changing variable in an ecosystem. This paper expands the focus to include similar dynamics in social and economic systems, in which multiple variables may act together in ways that pr...

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Main Authors: Ann P. Kinzig, Paul Ryan, Michel Etienne, Helen Allison, Thomas Elmqvist, Brian H. Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2006-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art20/