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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Resilience Alliance
2010-09-01
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Series: | Ecology and Society |
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Online Access: | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss3/art10/ |