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Walker Brian |
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Titolo |
Resilience Thinking : Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World / / Brian Walker & David Salt ; foreword by Walter V. Reid |
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Washington, DC, USA, : Island Press, 2006 |
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Island Press |
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ISBN |
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1-59726-622-1 |
1-4294-9506-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Natural resources - Management |
Sustainable development |
Human ecology |
Resilience (Ecology) |
NATURE |
General |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-162) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Ch. 1: Living in a Complex World: An Introduction to Resilience Thinking -- Case Study 1: Carving up a National Icon - The Florida Everglades -- Ch. 2: The System Rules: Creating a Mind Space for Resilience Thinking -- Case Study 2: Between a (Salt)Rock and a Hard Place: The Goulburn-Broken Catchment, Australia -- Ch. 3: Crossing the Threshold: Be Careful about the Path You Choose - You May Not Be Able to Return -- Case Study 3: Losing the Jewel in the Crown: The Coral Reefs of the Caribbean -- Ch. 4: In the Loop: Phases, Cycles, and Scales - Adaptive Cycles and How Systems Change -- Case Study 4: Scenarios on the Lakes: The Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin -- Ch. 5: Making Sense of Resilience: How Do You Apply Resilience Thinking? -- Case Study 5: Building Resilience in the Wetlands: The Kristianstads Vattenrike, Sweden -- Ch. 6: Creating Space in a Shrinking World: Resilience and Sustainability -- Postscript for a Resilient World -- |
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