Growth, Collapse, and Reorganization of the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal: an Analysis of Institutional Resilience

Community-based conservation institutions can be conceptualized as complex adaptive systems that pass through a cycle of growth, maturation, collapse, and reorganization. We test the applicability of this four-phase adaptive cycle in the institutional context of the Annapurna Conservation Area (ACA)...

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Main Authors: Nabin Baral, Marc J. Stern, Joel T. Heinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2010-09-01
Series:Ecology and Society
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Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss3/art10/