Resilience thinking meets social theory: Situating social change in socio-ecological systems (SES) research

Progress in Human Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 475-489

  Cote, Muriel ^a   Nightingale, Andrea J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

environmental change; human environment; knowledge; power; resilience; social theory

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; KNOWLEDGE; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL THEORY;

EID: 84863645148     PISSN: 03091325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309132511425708     Document Type: Article

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