Resilience, experimentation, and scale mismatches in social-ecological landscapes

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1139-1150

  Cumming, Graeme S ^a   Olsson, Per ^b   Chapin III, F S ^c   Holling, C S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ecosystem services; Landscape planning; Management; Resilience; Social learning

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE;

EID: 84884985605     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9725-4     Document Type: Article

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