From Metaphor to Measurement: Resilience of What to What?

Ecosystems

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 765-781

  Carpenter, Steve ^a   Walker, Brian ^b   Anderies, J Marty ^b   Abel, Nick ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive capacity; Adaptive cycle; Lake districts; Persistence; Rangelands; Resilience; Resistance; Self organization; Socioecological system (SES); Stability; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; SELF ORGANIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TOLERANCE;

EID: 0035694989     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-001-0045-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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