Mechanisms of Resilience in Common-pool Resource Management Systems: an Agent-based Model of Water Use in a River Basin

The concept of resilience is widely promoted as a promising notion to guide new approaches to ecosystem and resource management that try to enhance a system's capacity to cope with change. A variety of mechanisms of resilience specific for different systems have been proposed. In the context of...

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Main Authors: Maja Schlüter, Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2007-12-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/art4/