Linking social and ecological systems : management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience /

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Imprint:Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Description:xvi, 459 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Microform Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3011321
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Other authors / contributors:Berkes, Fikret.
Folke, Carl.
Colding, Johan.
ISBN:0521591406 (hardbound)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Linking social and ecological systems for resilience and sustainability
  • Part I. Learning from Locally Devised Systems
  • 2. People, refugia and resilience
  • 3. Learning by fishing: practical engagement and environemntal concerns
  • 4. Dalecarlia in Central Sweden before 1800: a society of social and ecological resilience Ulf Sporrong
  • Part II. Emergence of Resource Management Adaptations
  • 5. Learning to design reslilient resource management: indigenous systems in the Canadian subarctic
  • 6. Resilience and neotraditional populations: the caiçaras of the Atlantic forest and caboclos of the Amazon (Brazil)
  • 7. Indigenous African resource management of a tropical rain forest ecosystem: a case study of the Yoruba of Ara
  • 8. Managing for human and ecological context in the Maine soft shell clam fishery
  • Part III. Success and Failure in Regional Systems
  • 9. Resilient resource management in Mexico's forest ecosystems: the contribution of property rights
  • 10. The resilience of pastoral herding in Sahelian Africa
  • 11. Reviving the social system-ecosystem links in the Himalayas
  • 12. Crossing the threshold of ecosystem resilience: the commercial extinction of northern cod
  • Part IV. Designing New Approaches to Management
  • 13. Science, sustainability and resource management
  • 14. Integrated management of a temperate montane forest ecosystem through holistic forestry: a British Columbia example
  • 15. Managing chaotic fisheries
  • 16. Social mechanisms and institutional learning for resilience and sustainability
  • Index