Resilience, adaptability and transformability in social-ecological systems

Ecology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Walker, Brian ^a   Holling, C S ^d   Carpenter, Stephen R ^b   Kinzig, Ann ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Adaptability; Adaptive cycles; Alternate states; Dynamics; Regime shift; Resilience; Social ecological; Stability; Systems; Thresholds; Transformability; Transformation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RESILIENCE; TRANSFORMATION;

EID: 20444454972     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-00650-090205     Document Type: Article

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