Building a diagnostic ontology of social-ecological systems

Building capacity for resilience in social- ecological systems

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Adaptive comanagement for building resilience in social-ecological systems.

Ecosystems are complex adaptive systems that require flexible governance with the ability to respond to environmental feedback. We present, through examples from Sweden and Canada, the development of adaptive comanagement systems, showing how local groups self-organize, learn, and actively adapt to and shape change with social networks that connect institutions and organizations across levels a...

A spatially explicit ontology for the institutional analysis of social-ecological systems

Thresholds in Ecological and Social–Ecological Systems: a Developing Database

Increasing interest in regime shifts in ecological and linked social–ecological systems (SESs) has placed a strong focus on the thresholds of change. However, research into this topic has been hampered by a lack of empirical data. This paper describes a developing database established to address this need. The database is freely available and comprises a set of summarized published examples and...

Elinor Ostrom , Social - Ecological Systems A

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