Research Catalog

Title

Resilience and the behavior of large scale systems / edited by Lance H. Gunderson and Lowell Pritchard Jr.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gunderson, Lance H.
• Pritchard, Lowell.
• International Council of Scientific Unions. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.

Description

xxiii, 287 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

SCOPE ; 60

Uniform Title

SCOPE report ; 60.

Subject

• Ecology
• Nature > Effect of human beings on
• Sustainable development
• Social ecology

Note

• "A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Resilience of large-scale resource systems / Lance H. Gunderson ... [et al.] -- Models and metaphors of sustainability, stability, and resilience / Donald Ludwig, Brian H. Walker, and C.S. Holling -- Resilience and the restoration of lakes / Stephen R. Carpenter and Kathryn L. Cottingham -- The Baltic Sea: reversibly unstable or irreversibly stable? / Bengt-Owe Jansson and AnnMari Jansson -- Resilience of coral reefs / Tim R. McClanahan, Nicholas V.C. Polunin, and Terry J. Done -- Resilience in wet landscapes of Southern Florida / Lance H. Gunderson and Carl J. Walters -- Ecological resilience in grazed rangelands: a generic case study / Brian H. Walker -- Resilience of tropical wet and dry forests in Puerto Rico / Ariel Lugo ... [et al.] -- Forest dynamics in the Southeastern United States: managing multiple stable states / Garry D. Peterson -- A summary and synthesis of resilience in large-scale systems / Lance H. Gunderson ... [et al.].

Call Number

JSE 04-465

ISBN

• 1559639709 (cloth : recycled, acid-free paper)
• 1559639717 (pbk. : recycled, acid-free paper)

LCCN

2002010630

OCLC

50143751

Title

Resilience and the behavior of large scale systems / edited by Lance H. Gunderson and Lowell Pritchard Jr.

Imprint

Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2002.

Series

SCOPE ; 60

SCOPE report ; 60.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Gunderson, Lance H.

Pritchard, Lowell.

International Council of Scientific Unions. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.

Research Call Number

JSE 04-465