Assessing resilience in stressed watersheds

Ecology and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nemec, Kristine T ^a   Chan, Joana ^b   Hoffman, Christina ^b   Spanbauer, Trisha L ^a   Hamm, Joseph A ^a   Allen, Craig R ^a   Hefley, Trevor ^a,b   Pan, Donald ^c   Shrestha, Prabhakar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological resilience; Platte River; Resilience assessment; Social resilience; Social ecological system

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DAM CONSTRUCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; PROJECT ASSESSMENT; RESILIENCE; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

NEBRASKA; PLATTE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897485268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-06156-190134     Document Type: Article

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