Not All Roads Lead to Resilience: a Complex Systems Approach to the Comparative Analysis of Tortoises in Arid Ecosystems

The concept of resilience has been widely used in the study of social-ecological systems, with its key components identified as resistance, latitude, and precariousness. We use this concept to examine the differences among three semi-arid regions in terms of these three components. We do this by exa...

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Main Authors: Thomas E. J. Leuteritz, Hamid R. Ekbia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2008-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art1/