Resilient social relationships and collaboration in the management of social-ecological systems

Ecology and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Nkhata, Abraham B ^a   Breen, Charles M ^a   Freimund, Wayne A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Relational capital; Relational change; Relational connectedness; Resilience; Social relationships; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; RESILIENCE;

EID: 46249083816     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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