Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World

by Brian Walker and David Salt

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Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency.
"Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1597260932

ISBN13:9781597260930

Release Date:August 2006

Publisher:Island Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.62 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Climate Change Environmentalism Sustainability Non-Fiction Biological Sciences Conservation Earth Sciences Ecology Education & Reference Engineering

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