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"After a decades-long economic slump, the city of Flint, Michigan, struggled to address chronic issues of toxic water supply, malnutrition, and food security gaps among its residents. A community-engaged research project proposed a resilience assessment that would use panarchy theory to move the city toward a more sustainable food system. Flint is one of many examples that demonstrates how panarchy theory is being applied to understand and influence change in complex human-natural systems. Applied Panarchy, the much-anticipated successor to Lance Gunderson and C.S. Holling's seminal 2002 volume Panarchy, documents the extraordinary advances in interdisciplinary panarchy scholarship and applications over the past two decades. Panarchy theory has been applied to a broad range of fields, from economics to law to urban planning, changing the practice of environmental stewardship for the better in measurable, tangible ways.Panarchy describes the way systems--whether forests, electrical grids, agriculture, coastal surges, public health, or human economies and governance--are part of even larger systems that interact in unpredictable ways. Although humans desire resiliency and stability in our lives to help us understand the world and survive, nothing in nature is permanently stable. How can society anticipate and adjust to the changes we see around us? Where Panarchy proposed a framework to understand how these transformational cycles work and how we might influence them, Applied Panarchy takes the scholarship to the next level, demonstrating how these concepts have been modified and refined. The book shows how panarchy theory intersects with other disciplines, and how it directly influences natural resources management and environmental stewardship.Intended as a text for graduate courses in environmental sciences and related fields, Applied Panarchy picks up where Panarchy left off, inspiring new generations of scholars, researchers, and professionals to put its ideas to work in practical ways."--

Human ecology --- Political ecology. --- Social ecology. --- Social Environment --- Écologie humaine --- Écologie politique. --- Écologie sociale. --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie.

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Evidence has been mounting for some time that intensive row-crop agriculture as practiced in developed countries may not be environmentally sustainable, with concerns increasingly being raised about climate change, implications for water quantity and quality, and soil degradation. This volume synthesizes two decades of research on the sustainability of temperate, row-crop ecosystems of the Midwestern United States. The overarching hypothesis guiding this work has been that more biologically based management practices could greatly reduce negative impacts while maintaining sufficient productivity to meet demands for food, fiber and fuel, but that roadblocks to their adoption persist because we lack a comprehensive understanding of their benefits and drawbacks.

Agricultural ecology --- Cropping systems --- Écologie agricole.

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Soil ecology --- Écologie du sol --- Edaphology --- Ecology --- Soils --- Roots (Botany) --- Environmental aspects

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"This book provides scientists and students with a compendium of the methodological knowledge needed to conduct state-of-the-art ecological research on terrestrial small mammals around the world"--

Mammals --- Ecology. --- Research --- Methodology. --- Mammifères --- Écologie. --- Recherche --- Méthodologie.

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Contains tables of contents and abstracts only, <1995>-2000; full text also available, vol. 201 (2000)-

Marine ecology --- Écologie marine --- Biological oceanography --- Marine ecosystems --- Ocean --- Ecology --- Marine ecology. --- Mariene ecologie. --- Aquatic ecology --- Écologie marine