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Resilience and Regime Shifts: Assessing Cascading Effect

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dc.contributor.author Kinzig, Ann P. en_US
dc.contributor.author Ryan, Paul en_US
dc.contributor.author Etienne, Michel en_US
dc.contributor.author Allison, Helen en_US
dc.contributor.author Elmqvist, Thomas en_US
dc.contributor.author Walker, Brian H. en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2009-07-31T14:51:12Z
dc.date.available 2009-07-31T14:51:12Z
dc.date.issued 2006 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-06-15 en_US
dc.date.submitted 2009-06-15 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/2550
dc.description.abstract "Most accounts of thresholds between alternate regimes involve a single, dominant shift defined by one, often slowly changing variable in an ecosystem. This paper expands the focus to include similar dynamics in social and economic systems, in which multiple variables may act together in ways that produce interacting regime shifts in social-ecological systems. We use four different regions in the world, each of which contains multiple thresholds, to develop a proposed 'general model' of threshold interactions in social-ecological systems. The model identifies patch-scale ecological thresholds, farm- or landscape-scale economic thresholds, and regional-scale sociocultural thresholds. 'Cascading thresholds,' i.e., the tendency of the crossing of one threshold to induce the crossing of other thresholds, often lead to very resilient, although often less desirable, alternative states." en_US
dc.subject resilience en_US
dc.subject regimes en_US
dc.subject social-ecological systems en_US
dc.title Resilience and Regime Shifts: Assessing Cascading Effect en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Ecology and Society en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 11 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 1 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth June en_US


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