Source/Sink Patterns of Disturbance and Cross-Scale Mismatches in a Panarchy of Social-Ecological Landscapes
Land-use change is one of the major factors affecting global environmental change and represents a primary human effect on natural systems. Taking into account the scales and patterns of human land uses as source/sink disturbance systems, we describe a framework to characterize and interpret the spa...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2008-06-01
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Series: | Ecology and Society |
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Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art26/ |