Panarchy Synopsis by Lance H Gunderson
`Panarchy’ is a new term coined from the name of the Greek god Pan, a symbol of universal nature and associated with unpredictable change. It represents an alternative framework for managing the issues that emerge from the interaction between people and nature. That interaction generates countless surprises, often the result of slow changes that can accumulate and unexpectedly flip an ecosystem or an economy into a qualitatively different state. That state may be not only impoverished, but also effectively irreversible. Thus, understanding how such change occurs is critical to achieving a sustainable society. Developed from the work of the Resilience Alliance, a worldwide group of leading organizations and individuals involved in ecological and economic research, Panarchy provides a framework to understand the cycles of change in complex systems and to gauge if, when, and how they can be influenced. This synopsis introduces lay readers and decision makers to this widely acclaimed line of inquiry and to the basic concept behind Panarchy, published by Island Press.
Lance Gunderson is professor and chair in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His research focuses on the human and institutional dimensions of resource ecology. He is coeditor-in-chief of the journal Ecology and Society. Craig Allen is a professor at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, and serves on the board of directors for the Resilience Alliance. His research focuses on the links between land use and land cover change, biological invasions, extinctions, and resilience. Ahjond Garmestani is a research scientist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Gulf Breeze, Florida, and the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law-Utrecht University School of Law, Utrecht, The Netherlands. His research is transdisciplinary and focuses on governance of social-ecological systems.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781559633307 |
| ISBN 10 | 1559633301 |
| Title | Panarchy Synopsis |
| Author | Lance H Gunderson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Island Press |
| Year published | 2002-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
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