Spatial Resilience is a new and exciting area of
interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the influence of spatial
variation including such things as spatial location, context,
connectivity, and dispersal on the resilience of complex systems,
and on the roles that resilience and self-organization play in
generating spatial variation. Prof. Cumming provides a readable
introduction and a first comprehensive synthesis covering the core
concepts and applications of spatial resilience to the study of
social-ecological systems. The book follows a trajectory from
concepts through models, methods, and case study analysis before
revisiting the central problems in the further conceptual
development of the field. In the process, the author ranges from
the movements of lions in northern Zimbabwe to the urban jungles of
Europe, and from the collapse of past societies to the social
impacts of modern conflict. The many case studies and examples
discussed in the book show how the concept of spatial resilience
can generate valuable insights into the spatial dynamics of
social-ecological systems and contribute to solving some of the
most pressing problems of our time. Although it has been written
primarily for students, this book will provide fascinating reading
for interdisciplinary scientists at all career stages as well as
for the interested public.
""Graeme Cumming, central in the development of resilience
thinking and theory, has produced a wonderful book on spatial
resilience, the first ever on this topic. The book will become a
shining star, a classic in the explosion of new ideas and
approaches to studying and understanding social-ecological
systems."" Carl Folke, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden"
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