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Ahjond S. Garmestani
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Stability and Flexibility in the Emergence of Adaptive Water Governance
One of the goals of adaptive governance is to increase management flexibility in the face of a changing social-ecological system. In contrast, one of the key functions of governance systems is to provide stabi...
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Uncertainty and Trade-Offs in Resilience Assessments
Several frameworks have been developed to assess the resilience of social-ecological systems, but most are time consuming and require substantial time and technical expertise. Stakeholders and practitioners of...
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Theory and Research to Study Principles of Social Cognition and Decision-Making in Adaptive Environmental Governance
Environmental governance systems must adapt to address increased uncertainty and new social-ecological conditions posed by stressors like climate change. This chapter presents several principles of social cogn...
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Social, Legal, and Ecological Capacity for Adaptation and Transformation in the Everglades
The Florida Everglades is a subtropical wetland in the southeastern USA that has been hydrologically modified to protect urban and agricultural lands from flooding, while supplying water for urban interests an...
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Legal Pathways to Adaptive Governance in Water Basins in North America and Australia
Law dictates the structure, boundaries, rules, and processes within which governmental action takes place and in doing so becomes one of the focal points for analysis of governmental barriers to adaptation as ...
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Theory and Research to Study the Legal and Institutional Foundations of Adaptive Governance
Adaptation to major social and ecological changes requires the participation, innovation, social learning, and political deliberation of many stakeholders, doing many different governance activities at differe...
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Vacant urban lot soils and their potential to support ecosystem services
Urban soils are the basis of many ecosystem services in cities. Here, we examine formerly residential vacant lot soils in Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan, USA for their potential to provide multiple ecos...
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Adaptive Management of Rangeland Systems
Adaptive management is an approach to natural resource management that uses structured learning to reduce uncertainties for the improvement of management over time. The origins of adaptive management are linke...
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Open AccessPanarchy use in environmental science for risk and resilience planning
Environmental sciences have an important role in informing sustainable management of built environments by providing insights about the drivers and potentially negative impacts of global environmental change. ...
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Adaptive governance to promote ecosystem services in urban green spaces
Managing urban green space as part of an ongoing social-ecological transformation poses novel governance issues, particularly in post-industrial settings. Urban green spaces operate as small-scale nodes in lar...
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Adaptive exchange of capitals in urban water resources management: an approach to sustainability?
With water availability increasingly restricted by deficiencies in quality and quantity, water resources management is a central issue in planning for sustainability in the Anthropocene. In this paper, we firs...
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Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems: The Path Forward
Adaptive management remains at the forefront of environmental management nearly 40 years after its original conception, largely because we have yet to develop other methodologies that offer the same promise. D...
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Adaptive Management
Adaptive management is an approach to natural resource management that emphasizes learning through management where knowledge is incomplete, and when, despite inherent uncertainty, managers and policymakers mu...
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The Role of Bridging Organizations in Enhancing Ecosystem Services and Facilitating Adaptive Management of Social-Ecological Systems
The nested nature of social-ecological systems across scales requires a multi-scale approach for monitoring and response. However, in many cases this flow is hindered by hierarchical structures and bureaucrati...
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Panarchy: Theory and Application
The concept of panarchy provides a framework that characterizes complex systems of people and nature as dynamically organized and structured within and across scales of space and time. It has been more than a ...
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Managing for resilience: early detection of regime shifts in complex systems
The broad implications of catastrophic regime shifts have prompted the need to find methods that are not only able to detect regime shifts but more importantly, identify them before they occur. Rising variance...
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A systems perspective on responses to climate change
The science of climate change integrates many scientific fields to explain and predict the complex effects of greenhouse gas concentrations on the planet’s energy balance, weather patterns, and ecosystems as w...
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Sustainability science: accounting for nonlinear dynamics in policy and social–ecological systems
Resilience is an emergent property of complex systems. Understanding resilience is critical for sustainability science, as linked social–ecological systems and the policy process that governs them have the cap...
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Ecosystems, Adaptive Management
Adaptive management is an approach to natural resource management that emphasizes learning through management based upon the philosophy that knowledge is incomplete and much of what is thought to be known is a...
