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After a decades long economic slump, the city of Flint, Michigan,
struggled to address chronic issues of toxic water supply,
malnutrition, and food security gaps among its residents. A
community engaged research project proposed a resilience assessment
that would use panarchy theory to move the city toward a more
sustainable food system. Flint is one of many examples that
demonstrate how panarchy theory is being applied to understand and
influence change in complex human natural systems. Applied
Panarchy, the much anticipated successor to Lance Gunderson and
C.S. Holling's seminal 2002 volume Panarchy, documents the
extraordinary advances in interdisciplinary panarchy scholarship
and applications over the past two decades. Panarchy theory has
been applied to a broad range of fields from economics to law to
urban planning, changing the practice of environmental stewardship
for the better in measurable, tangible ways. Panarchy describes the
way systems-whether forests, electrical grids, agriculture, coastal
surges, public health, or human economies and governance-are part
of even larger systems that interact in unpredictable ways.
Although humans desire resiliency and stability in our lives to
help us understand the world and survive, nothing in nature is
permanently stable. How can society anticipate and adjust to the
changes we see around us? Where Panarchy proposed a framework to
understand how these transformational cycles work and how we might
influence them, Applied Panarchy takes the scholarship to the next
level, demonstrating how these concepts have been modified and
refined. The book shows how panarchy theory intersects with other
disciplines, and how it directly influences natural resources
management and environmental stewardship. Intended as a text for
graduate courses in environmental sciences and related fields,
Applied Panarchy picks up where Panarchy left off, inspiring new
generations of scholars, researchers, and professionals to put its
ideas to work in practical ways.
This title presents the evolution of resilience theory in seminal
papers and commentary. Ecological resilience provides a theoretical
foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and
recover from localized disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest
outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as
climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory over
the past three decades in an effort to explain surprising and
nonlinear dynamics of complex adaptive systems. Resilience theory
is especially important to environmental scientists for its role in
underpinning adaptive management approaches to ecosystem and
resource management. "Foundations of Ecological Resilience" is a
collection of the most important articles on the subject of
ecological resilience - those writings that have defined and
developed basic concepts in the field and help explain its
importance and meaning for scientists and researchers. The book's
three sections cover articles that have shaped or defined the
concepts and theories of resilience, including key papers that
broke new conceptual ground and contributed novel ideas to the
field; examples that demonstrate ecological resilience in a range
of ecosystems; and, articles that present practical methods for
understanding and managing nonlinear ecosystem dynamics.
"Foundations of Ecological Resilience" is an important contribution
to our collective understanding of resilience and an invaluable
resource for students and scholars in ecology, wildlife ecology,
conservation biology, sustainability, environmental science, public
policy, and related fields.
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