Resilience, adaptive capacity, and the "lock-in trap" of the Western Australian agricultural region

Ecology and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Allison, Helen E ^a   Hobbs, Richard J ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Adaptive cycle; Economics; Kondratiev cycles; Land use change; Natural resources; Resilience theory; Scale; Social ecological systems; Western Australian agricultural region

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RESILIENCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 4344704758     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-00641-090103     Document Type: Article

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