Advancing Toward 'Eden': A response to: Ludwig et al. 1997. 'Sustainability, Stability, and Resilience'

Found at: https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2748
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Type:	Journal Article
Author:	Tyson, Wayne
Journal:	Ecology and Society
Volume:	4
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Date:	2000
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2748
Sector:	Social Organization General & Multiple Resources
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Subject(s):	ecological economics ecosystems environmental policy resilience sustainability
Abstract:	"There are two ways to exploit natural systems. Rip-off or restore. While self-serving euphemisms (e.g., 'green,' 'sustainability,' 'reforestation,' and 'the' ecology) may be as repulsive to purists as they are appealing to reformers and spin-hypers alike, they do serve the purpose of laying a stone or two toward bridging the gap between the rampant masses and the enlightened. So what's the next stepping stone between scientific understanding, applications that work, and broad enough acceptance of the implications of the applications and the science behind them? In most of my work (highway cuts and fills, pipelines, landfills, and the like), 'equilibrium' is not an issue. The patient is, theoretically, dead."

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