Resilience in Pre-contact Pacific Northwest Social Ecological Systems

If, like other ecosystems, the variable and dynamic ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest exhibited cycles and unpredictable behavior, particularly when humans were present, the indigenous societies of that region had to have been resilient in order to persist for such a long time. They persisted for...

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Main Author: Ronald L. Trosper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2003-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol7/iss3/art6/