Spatial Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems

• Main Author: Cumming, Graeme S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Landscape ecology.; Environmental management.; Nature conservation.; Sustainable development.; Sociology.; Life Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Sustainable Development.; Landscape Ecology.; Nature Conservation.; Environmental Management.

Spatial Resilience is a new and exciting area of interdisciplinary research. It focuses on the influence of spatial variation – including such things as spatial location, context, connectivity, and dispersal – on the resilience of complex systems, and on the roles that resilience and self-organizati...