Diversity, flexibility, and the resilience effect: lessons from a social-ecological case study of diversified farming in the northern Great Plains, USA
Social-ecological systems are considered resilient when they are capable of recovering from externally forced shocks. Thus, whether a given system is identified as resilient depends on a number of contested definitions: what constitutes a shock, what constitutes a discrete system, and what constitut...
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| Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Society |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol19/iss3/art45/ |