Synthesis: building resilience and adaptive capacity in social–ecological systems

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Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems

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Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy

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Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems

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Social and ecological resilience: are they related?

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Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges

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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity

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Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management

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Biodiversity and Ecological Redundancy

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Original Articles: Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale

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The Collapse of Complex Societies.

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Resilience of ecosystems: local surprise and global change.

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Indigenous Knowledge for Biodiversity Conservation

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Integrated Approaches to Long-TermStudies of Urban Ecological Systems

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Fragile Dominion: Complexity and the Commons

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The Earth as Transformed by Human Action

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MANAGEMENT OF EUTROPHICATION FOR LAKES SUBJECT TO POTENTIALLY IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE

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Integrated Approaches to Long-Term Studies of Urban Ecological Systems

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Coral reef disturbance and resilience in a human-dominated environment

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Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Co-Evolutionary Revisioning of the Future

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The case for data-less marine resource management: examples from tropical nearshore finfisheries

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MARINE RESERVES ARE NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT FOR MARINE CONSERVATION

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Local Ecological Knowledge and Institutional Dynamics for Ecosystem Management: A Study of Lake Racken Watershed, Sweden

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New Ecology and the Social Sciences: What Prospects for a Fruitful Engagement?

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Linking global and local scales: designing dynamic assessment and management processes

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Facilitating sustainable agriculture: participatory learning and adaptive management in times of environmental uncertainty

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Spatial Resilience of Coral Reefs

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Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems: the case of the Kayap� indians of the Brazilian Amazon

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SOCIAL TABOOS: “INVISIBLE” SYSTEMS OF LOCAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

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BACK TO THE FUTURE: ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE

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The Environment and Emerging Development Issues

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Contributions of traditional knowledge to understanding climate change in the Canadian Arctic

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Coping with Collapse: Ecological and Social Dynamics in Ecosystem Management

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Biodiversity, Resilience and Sustainability

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A systems perspective on the interrelations between natural, human-made and cultural capital

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Ecological Principles and Guidelines for Managing the Use of Land

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Yards, corridors, and mosaics: How to burn a boreal forest

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Social Traps and Environmental Policy

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Managing Our Environmental Portfolio

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Indigenous agroforestry in the Peruvian Amazon: Bora Indian management of swidden fallows

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Messages from a Mountain

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Organizational Change as a Component of Ecosystem Management

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Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Biodiversity, Resilience and Sustainability

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Social Principles Underlying Traditional Inshore Fishery Management Systems in the Pacific Basin

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Diversity: Cultural and biological

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Institutions, Ecosystems, and Sustainability

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Untitled

2000 • 38 citations

Assessing biodiversity : a human ecological approach

1992 • 17 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations