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Foundations of Ecological Resilience

  • ISBN-13: 9781597265102
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • Edited by Lance H. Gunderson, Edited by Craig Reece Allen, Edited by C. S. Holling
  • Price: AUD $185.00
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2010
  • Format: Hardback 496 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Popular science [PDZ]
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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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Contents

Introduction: Why Resilience? Why Now? Lance H. Gunderson, and Craig P. Allen

Part One: Concepts and Theory

Commentary on Part One Articles, Craig R. Allen, Lance H. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling

Article 1: Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems, C. S. Holling

Article 2: Engineering Resilience versus Ecological Resilience, C. S. Holling

Article 3: The Resilience of Terrestrial Ecosystems: Local Surprise and Global Change, C. S. Holling

Article 4: Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management, Carl Folke Steve Carpenter, Brian Walker, Marten Scheffer, Thomas Elmqvist, Lance Gunderson, and C. S. Holling

Article 5: Biological Diversity, Ecosystems, and the Human Scale, Carl Folke, C. S. Holling, and Carles Perrings

Article 6: Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale, Garry Peterson, Craig R. Allen and C. S. Holling

Part Two: Ecological Examples

Commentary on Part Two Articles, Craig R. Allen, Lance H. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling

Article 7: Catastrophes, Phase Shifts, and Large-Scale Degradation of a Caribbean Coral Reef, Terence P. Hughes

Article 8: Sea Otters and Kelp Forests in Alaska: Generality and Variation in a Community Ecological Paradigm, James A. Estes and David O. Duggins

Article 9: Body Mass Patterns Predict Invasions and Extinctions in Transforming Landscapes, Craig R. Allen, Elizabeth A. Forys, and C. S. Holling

Part Three: Empirics and Models

Commentary on Part Three Articles, Craig R. Allen, Lance H. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling

Article 10: Resource Science: The Nurture of an Infant, C. S. Holling and A. D. Chambers

Article 11: Lessons for Ecological Policy Design: A Case Study of Ecosystem Management, William C. Clark, Dixon D. Jones, and C. S Holling

Article 12: Qualitative Analysis of Insect Outbreak Systems: The Spruce Budworm and the Forest, D. Ludwig, D. D. Jones, and C. S. Holling

Conclusion: The Evolution of an Idea'the Past, Present, and Future of Ecological Resilience, Lance H. Gunderson, C. S. Holling, and Craing R. Allen

Selected Bibliography

Permissions and Original Sources

Index

"I will start by saying I wish this book had been published ten years earlier—it would have saved a lot of arguments over what terms such as resilience, stability, elasticity, resistance all mean. ... So, too, will this volume be a classic."
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