Resilience, flexibility and adaptive management - - Antidotes for spurious certitude?

Conservation Ecology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1999, Pages

  Gunderson, Lance ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Adaptive management; AEAM; Ecological resilience; Flexibility; Florida everglades; Policy crisis; Restoration; Stability domain; Stakeholders; Surprise; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947114405     PISSN: 11955449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-00089-030107     Document Type: Article

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