Separating adaptive maintenance (Resilience) and transformative capacity of social-ecological systems

Ecology and Society

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wilson, Samuel ^a,b   Pearson, Leonie J ^a,c   Kashima, Yoshihisa ^a,c   Lusher, Dean ^d   Pearson, Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Feedbacks; Functions; Identity; Structure

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION; RURAL AREA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SUSTAINABILITY;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84876766820     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-05100-180122     Document Type: Article

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