Systems thinking and social learning for sustainability

Human-Nature Interactions in the Anthropocene: Potentials of Social-Ecological Systems Analysis

Volumn 9780203123195, Issue , 2012, Pages 13-33

  Krause, Gesche ^a   Welp, Martin ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b Fachhochschule Eberswalde   (Germany)

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EID: 84907478239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203123195     Document Type: Chapter

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