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Abel, Tom and Stepp, John Richard. 2003. A new ecosystems ecology for anthropology. Conservation Ecology 7:-.

ACSC Keywords: sciences, complex, ecosystems ecology, complexity theory, non-equilibrium theory, integrative disciplines

Armitage, Derek and Johnson, Derek. 2006. Can resilience be reconciled with globalization and the increasingly complex conditions of resource degradation in Asian coastal regions?. Ecology and Society 11.

Author's Keywords: resource management, sustainability, India, globalization, resilience, indonesia, complexity, social-ecological system, coastal management

Armitage, Derek. 2004. Nature-society dynamics, policy narratives, and ecosystem management: Integrating perspectives on upland change and complexity in central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Ecosystems 7:717-728.

Author's Keywords: management, biodiversity, sustainability, ecosystem, indonesia, environment and development, complexity, uplands

Becker, C. Dustin and Ostrom, Elinor. 1995. Human ecology and resource sustainability: The importance of institutional diversity. Annual Review of Ecol. Syst. 26:113-133.

Author's Keywords: common-pool resources, institutions, complexity, spatial and temporal scales, design principles

ACSC Keywords: africa, common-pool resources, institutions, sustainable, Uganda, CPR

Biggs, R., Carpenter, S. R., and Brock, W. A. 2009. Spurious certainty: How ignoring measurement error and environmental heterogeneity may contribute to environmental controversies. Bioscience 59:65-76.

Author's Keywords: management, conservation, science, complexity, variability, complex systems, hierarchical bayes, meta-analysis, measurement error, environmental heterogeneity, tool

Cumming, Graeme S. and Collier, John. 2005. Change and identity in complex systems. Ecology and Society 10.

Author's Keywords: ecosystem, resilience, complexity, identity, economy, society, evolution, social networks, adaptive cycle, limitation, replacement, random walk, social-ecological system, metamodels

Davies, Rick. 2004. Scale, complexity and the representation of theories of change. Evaluation 10:101-121.

Author's Keywords: scale, representation, complexity, logical framework, theories of change

Dybas, Cheryl Lyn. 2001. From biodiversity to biocomplexity: A multidisciplinary step toward understanding our environment. BioScience 51:426-430.

ACSC Keywords: biodiversity, complexity, biological organization, biocomplexity, systems approach

Gillson, Lindsey. 2009. Landscapes in time and space. Landscape Ecology 24:149-155.

Author's Keywords: resilience, biocomplexity, adaptive cycles, thresholds, Landscape mosaics, Palaeo-invasions

Nyhus, Philip, Westley, Frances, Lacy, Robert, and Miller, Philip. 2002. A role for natural resource social science in biodiversity risk assessment. Society and Natural Resources 15:923-932.

Author's Keywords: biocomplexity, population viability analysis, interdisciplinary collaboration

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