Conceptualising Long-Term Socio-ecological Research (LTSER): Integrating the social dimension

Long-Term Ecological Research: Between Theory and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 377-398

  Singh, Simron J ^a   Haberl, Helmut ^a   Gaube, Veronika ^a   Grünbühel, Clemens M ^b   Lisivieveci, Petru ^c   Lutz, Julia ^a   Matthews, Robin ^d   Mirtl, Michael ^e   Vadineanu, Angheluta ^c   Wildenberg, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^d SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Complex adaptive systems; Long term ecological research (LTER); Long term socio ecological research (LTSER); Participation; Society nature interaction; Socio economic metabolism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892351805     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8782-9_26     Document Type: Chapter

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