Resilience in pre-contact Pacific Northwest social ecological systems

Ecology and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Trosper, Ronald L ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Buffering disturbance; Environmental ethics; Indigenous societies; Northwest Coast; Property rights; Reciprocity; Resilience; Self organization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879923078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00551-070306     Document Type: Article

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