Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems |
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| Editor:
| Gunderson, Lance H.
Pritchard, Lowell |
| Series title: | Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55963-971-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2002 |
| Publisher: | Island Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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Scientists and researchers concerned with the behavior of large ecosystems have focused in recent years on the concept of ""resilience."" Traditional perspectives held that ecological systems exist close to a steady state and resilience is the ability of the system to return rapidly to that state following perturbation. However beginning with the ......
Scientists and researchers concerned with the behavior of large ecosystems have focused in recent years on the concept of ""resilience."" Traditional perspectives held that ecological systems exist close to a steady state and resilience is the ability of the system to return rapidly to that state following perturbation. However beginning with the ......