Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is ...

Linking Social and Ecological Systems will be of value to natural and social scientists interested in sustainability. 'This is a scholarly work, with an international focus, providing detailed ...

Dominant livelihood approaches focus on increasing incomes and trigger processes that disregard underlying social-ecological systems and often result in adverse social, economic and ecological ...

Conservation challenges are most often set in complex systems where social ... define a holistic theory of pastoralism, studying pastoralism system transitions and their commonalities to identify ...