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Resilience and the Behavior of Large-Scale Systems
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gunderson, Lance H., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.) ill
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] 3Island Press 2012
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Scientists and researchers concerned with the behaviour of large ecosystems have focused in recent years on the concept of resilience. Traditional perspectives held that ecological systems exist close to a steady state and resilience is the ability of the system to return rapidly to that state following perturbation. However, beginning with the work of C.S. Holling in the early 1970s, researchers began to look at conditions far from the steady state where instabilities can cause a system to shift into an entirely different regime of behaviour, and where resilience is measured by the magnitude of disturbance that can be absorbed before the system is restructured.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-61091-313-2
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