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Resilience and the behavior of large-scale systems

Title
Resilience and the behavior of large-scale systems / edited by Lance H. Gunderson and Lowell Pritchard Jr.
Publication
Washington, DC : Island Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Gunderson, Lance H.
  • Pritchard, Lowell.
  • International Council of Scientific Unions. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment.
Description
xxiii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Series Statement
SCOPE ; 60
Uniform Title
SCOPE report ; 60.
Subjects
Note
  • "A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council of Scientific Unions."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Pt. I. Understanding Resilience: Theory, Metaphors, and Frameworks. 1. Resilience of Large-Scale Resource Systems / Lance H. Gunderson, C. S. Holling, Lowell Pritchard, Jr. and Garry D. Peterson. 2. Models and Metaphors of Sustainability, Stability, and Resilience / Donald Ludwig, Brian H. Walker and C. S. Holling -- Pt. II. Resilience in Large-Scale Systems. 3. Resilience and the Restoration of Lakes / Stephen R. Carpenter and Kathryn L. Cottingham. 4. The Baltic Sea: Reversibly Unstable or Irreversibly Stable? / Bengt-Owe Jansson and AnnMari Jansson. 5. Resilience of Coral Reefs / Tim R. McClanahan, Nicholas V. C. Polunin and Terry J. Done. 6. Resilience in Wet Landscapes of Southern Florida / Lance H. Gunderson and Carl J. Walters. 7. Ecological Resilience in Grazed Rangelands: A Generic Case Study / Brian H. Walker. 8. Resilience of Tropical Wet and Dry Forests in Puerto Rico / Ariel Lugo, Frederick N. Scatena, Whendee Silver, Sandra Molina Colon and Peter G. Murphy.
  • 9. Forest Dynamics in the Southeastern United States: Managing Multiple Stable States / Garry D. Peterson -- Pt. III. Summary. 10. A Summary and Synthesis of Resilience in Large-Scale Systems / Lance H. Gunderson, Lowell Pritchard, Jr., C. S. Holling, Carl Folke and Garry D. Peterson.
ISBN
  • 1559639709 (alk. paper)
  • 1559639717 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002010630
OCLC
  • ocm50143751
  • SCSB-4317764
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries