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Resilience and the behavior of large scale systems / edited by Lance H. Gunderson and Lowell Pritchard Jr.

Contributor(s): Series: SCOPE report ; 60.Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2002Description: xxiii, 287 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1559639709 (cloth : recycled, acidfree paper)
  • 1559639717 (pbk. : recycled, acid-free paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 577 21
LOC classification:
  • QH541 .R45 2002
Contents:
Resilience of large-scale resource systems / Lance H. Gunderson ... [et al.] -- Models and metaphors of sustainability, stability, and resilience / Donald Ludwig, Brian H. Walker, and C.S. Holling -- Resilience and the restoration of lakes / Stephen R. Carpenter and Kathryn L. Cottingham -- The Baltic Sea: reversibly unstable or irreversibly stable? / Bengt-Owe Jansson and AnnMari Jansson -- Resilience of coral reefs / Tim R. McClanahan, Nicholas V.C. Polunin, and Terry J. Done -- Resilience in wet landscapes of Southern Florida / Lance H. Gunderson and Carl J. Walters -- Ecological resilience in grazed rangelands: a generic case study / Brian H. Walker -- Resilience of tropical wet and dry forests in Puerto Rico / Ariel Lugo ... [et al.] -- Forest dynamics in the Southeastern United States: managing multiple stable states / Garry D. Peterson -- A summary and synthesis of resilience in large-scale systems / Lance H. Gunderson ... [et al.].
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QH541 .R45 2002 1 Available 50583010305450
Total holds: 0

"A project of SCOPE, the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment, of the International Council for Science."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Resilience of large-scale resource systems / Lance H. Gunderson ... [et al.] -- Models and metaphors of sustainability, stability, and resilience / Donald Ludwig, Brian H. Walker, and C.S. Holling -- Resilience and the restoration of lakes / Stephen R. Carpenter and Kathryn L. Cottingham -- The Baltic Sea: reversibly unstable or irreversibly stable? / Bengt-Owe Jansson and AnnMari Jansson -- Resilience of coral reefs / Tim R. McClanahan, Nicholas V.C. Polunin, and Terry J. Done -- Resilience in wet landscapes of Southern Florida / Lance H. Gunderson and Carl J. Walters -- Ecological resilience in grazed rangelands: a generic case study / Brian H. Walker -- Resilience of tropical wet and dry forests in Puerto Rico / Ariel Lugo ... [et al.] -- Forest dynamics in the Southeastern United States: managing multiple stable states / Garry D. Peterson -- A summary and synthesis of resilience in large-scale systems / Lance H. Gunderson ... [et al.].

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