Assessing the resilience of small socio-ecological systems based on the dominant polarity of their feedback structure

System Dynamics Review

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 351-360

  Bueno, Newton Paulo ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 84870390032     PISSN: 08837066     EISSN: 10991727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sdr.1476     Document Type: Article

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