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Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems

Lance Gunderson, Lowell Pritchard

Sponsor: SCOPE

Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems

Published: 10/01/2002
Publisher: Island Press
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series Vol. 60
240 p. 6 x 9
Tables. Figures.
Index.
ISBN: 9781559639712
Paperback: $32.50

Also Available: Hardcover

Biographies | Table Of Contents

Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems examines theories of resilience and change, offering readers a thorough understanding of how the properties of ecological resilience and human adaptability interact in complex, regional-scale systems.

Biographies

Lance H. Gunderson is associate professor and chair, and Lowell Pritchard Jr. is assistant professor, in the Department of Environmental Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lance H. Gunderson is associate professor and chair in the Department of Environmental Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Lowell Pritchard Jr. is assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) was established by the International Council for Science (ICSU) in 1969. It brings together natural and social scientists to identify emerging or potential environmental issues and to address jointly the nature and solution of environmental problems on a global basis.With its headquarters in Paris, France, SCOPE programs are conducted by volunteer scientists from every inhabited continent of the globe.

List of Figures and Tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I. Understanding Resilience: Theory, Metaphors, and Frameworks
1. Resilience of Large-Scale Resource Systems
2. Models and Metaphors of Sustainability, Stability, and Resilience

Part II. Resilience in Large-Scale Systems
3. Resilience and the Restoration of Lakes
4. The Baltic Sea: Reversibly Unstable or Irreversibly Stable?
5. Resilience of Coral Reefs
6. Resilience in Wet Landscapes of Southern Florida
7. Ecological Resilience in Grazed Rangelands: A Generic Case Study
8. Resilience of Tropical Wet and Dry Forests in Puerto Rico
9. Forest Dynamics in the Southeastern United States: Managing Multiple Stable States

Part III. Summary
10. A Summary and Synthesis of Resilience in Large-Scale Systems

List of Contributors
SCOPE Series List
SCOPE Executive Committee 2001-2004
Index

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