Transdisciplinary application of cross-scale resilience

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 6925-6948

  Sundstrom, Shana M ^a   Angeler, David G ^b   Garmestani, Ahjond S ^c   García, Jorge H ^d   Allen, Craig R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Complex adaptive systems; Cross scale dynamics; Discontinuities; Multidisciplinary application; Quantitative resilience; Social ecological systems

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; SOCIAL CHANGE;

EID: 84913537364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su6106925     Document Type: Article

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