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...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• 1 Introducing Spatial Resilience
• 2 Conceptual background on social-ecological systems and resilience
• 3 A theoretical framework for the analysis of spatial resilience
• 4 Introduction to the use of mechanistic models in studying spatial aspects of social-ecological systems
• 5 Spatial models in ecology and spatial resilience
• 6 Spatial Resilience in networks
• 7 Spatial resilience and landscape analysis
• 8 Spatial resilience, landscape experiments, and fragmentation
• 9 Spatial Resilience and fragmentation in social systems
• 10 Analyzing spatial resilience in case studies of social-ecological systems
• 11 Synthesis and conclusions
• Index.