How indeterminism shapes ecologists' contributions to managing socio-ecological systems

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 289-295

  Michaels, Sarah ^a   Tyre, Andrew J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Indeterminism; Risk; Science policy interface; Socio ecological systems; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864847828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00241.x     Document Type: Article

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