Historical framework to explain long-term coupled human and natural system feedbacks: Application to a multiple-ownership forest landscape in the Northern Great Lakes region, USA

Ecology and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Steen Adams, Michelle M ^a,b   Langston, Nancy ^c   Adams, Mark D O ^a   Mladenoff, David J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

CHANS; Environmental history; Feedback; Forest landscape; Great Lakes; Historical ecology; Lagged interaction; Legacy; Ownership; Tribal; Unanticipated consequence

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; LANDOWNERSHIP;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84923571683     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-06930-200128     Document Type: Article

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