Assessing the resilience of a real-world social-ecological system: Lessons from a multidisciplinary evaluation of a South African pastoral system

Ecology and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Linstädter, Anja ^a,b   Kuhn, Arnim ^b   Naumann, Christiane ^a   Rasch, Sebastian ^b   Sandhage Hofmann, Alexandra ^b   Amelung, Wulf ^b   Jordaan, Jorrie ^c   Du Preez, Chris C ^d   Bollig, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Drought; Empirical resilience assessment; Globalization; Institutions; Monetary resources; Pastoralism; Rangelands; Socialecological system

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; GLOBALIZATION; LIVELIHOOD; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PASTORALISM; RANGELAND;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84989179731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-08737-210335     Document Type: Article

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