Linking social and ecological systems : management practices and social mechanisms for building resilience / edited by Fikret Berkes and Carl Folke ; with the editorial assistance of Johan Colding.
| Other author | Berkes, Fikret. |
| Other author | Folke, Carl. |
| Other author | Colding, Johan. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1998. |
| Description | xvi, 459 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | People, refugia, and resilience / Madhav Gadgil, Natabar Shyam Hemam, and B. Mohan Reddy -- Learning by fishing: practical engagement and environmental concerns / Gísli Pálsson -- Dalecarlia in central Sweden before 1800: a society of social stability and ecological resilience / Ulf Sporrong -- Indigenous knowledge and resource management systems in the Canadian subarctic / Fikret Berkes -- Resilience and neo-traditional populations: the caiçaras (Atlantic Forest) and the caboclos (Amazon, Brazil) / Alpina Begossi -- Indigenous African resource management of a tropical rainforest ecosystem: a case study of the Yoruba of Ara, Nigeria / D. Michael Warren and Jennifer Pinkston -- Managing for human and ecological context in the Maine soft-shell clam industry / Susan S. Hanna -- Resilient resource management in Mexico's forest ecosystems: the contribution of property rights / Janis B. Alcorn and Victor M. Toledo -- The resilience of pastoral herding in Sahelian Africa / Maryam Niamir-Fuller -- Reviving the social system-ecosystem links in the Himalayas / Narpat S. Jodha -- Crossing the threshold of ecosystem resilience: the commercial extinction of northern cod / A. Christopher Finlayson and Bonnie J. McCay -- Science, sustainability, and resource management / C.S. Holling, Fikret Berkes, and Carl Folke -- Integrated management of a temperate montane forest ecosystem through wholistic forestry: a British Columbia example / Evelyn Pinkerton -- Managing chaotic fisheries / James A. Acheson, James A. Wilson, and Robert S. Steneck -- Ecological practices and social mechanisms for building resilience and sustainability / Carl Folke, Fikret Berkes, and Johan Colding. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 97006082 |
| ISBN | 0521591406 (hardbound) |