Situating Indigenous knowledge for resilience in fire-dependent social-ecological systems

Social Justice in Social-Ecological Systems: Resilience Through Stakeholder Engagement

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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...

Assessing Resilience in Social-Ecological Systems: Workbook for Practitioners

Building capacity for resilience in social- ecological systems

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A Framework for Resilience-based Governance of Social-Ecological Systems

Panarchy provides a heuristic to characterize the cross-scale dynamics of social-ecological systems and a framework for how governance institutions should behave to be compatible with the ecosystems they manage. Managing for resilience will likely require reform of law to account for the dynamics of social-ecological systems and achieve a substantive mandate that accommodates the need for adapt...