Growth and Collapse of a Resource System: an Adaptive Cycle of Change in Public Lands Governance and Forest Management in Alaska

Large-scale government efforts to develop resources for societal benefit have often experienced cycles of growth and decline that leave behind difficult social and ecological legacies. To understand the origins and outcomes of these failures of resource governance, scholars have applied the framewor...

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Main Authors: Colin M. Beier, Amy Lauren. Lovecraft, F. Stuart. Chapin, III
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2009-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art5/