Sustainability, stability, and resilience

Ecology and Society

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Ludwig, Donald ^a   Walker, Brian ^b   Holling, Crawford S ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c University of Florida   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifurcation; Multiple stable states; Resilience; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249112435     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00012-010107     Document Type: Article

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