Are adaptations self-organized, autonomous, and harmonious? Assessing the social-ecological resilience literature

The paper analyzes how adaptability (adaptive capacity and adaptations) is constructed in the literature on resilience of social-ecological systems (SES). According to some critics, this literature views adaptability as the capacity of SES to self-organize in an autonomous harmonious consensus-build...

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Main Authors: Thomas Hahn, Björn Nykvist
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2017-03-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol22/iss1/art12/