Ecological and Human Community Resilience in Response to Natural Disasters

Ecological resilience, adaptive cycles, and panarchy are all concepts that have been developed to explain abrupt and often surprising changes in complex socio-ecological systems that are prone to disturbances. These types of changes involve qualitative and quantitative alterations in systems' s...

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Main Author: Lance Gunderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2010-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss2/art18/