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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
Ostrom, E. 2007. A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:15181-15187. Author's Keywords: scale, interdisciplinary research, governance, collective action, forest management, community, social-ecological systems, complexity, commons, resources, systems, dynamics, Sustainability science, diagnostic model
Ostrom, Elinor. 1998. "Scales, Polycentricity, and Incentives: Designing ComplexScales, polycentricity, and incentives: Designing complexity to govern complexityity to Govern Complexity," in Protection of Global Biodiversity: converging strategies. Edited by Guruswamy, L. D. and McNeely, J. A., pp. 149-167. Durham: Duke University Press. ACSC Keywords: scale, biodiversity, sustainability, complexity
Peterson, David L. and Parker, V. Thomas. 1998. "Dimensions of scale in ecology, resource management, and society," in Ecological Scale. Edited by Peterson, David L. and Parker, V. Thomas, pp. 499-522. New York: Columbia University Press. ACSC Keywords: scale, fire regimes, ecological complexity
Peterson, Garry. 2000. Political ecology and ecological resilience: An integration of human and ecological dynamics. Ecological Economics 35:323-336. Author's Keywords: scale, resilience, cross-scale, salmon, Columbia River, complex adaptive systems
Quintero, Raquel, Barros, Rodrigo, Davila, Jacinto, Moreno, Niandry, Tonella, Giorgio, and Ablan, Magdiel. 2004. A model of the biocomplexity of deforestation in tropical forest: Caparo case study. Centro de Simulacion y Modelos (CESIMO), Grupo de Investigacion BIODESUS, University of Lugano Switzerland, Universidad de los Andes Facultad de Ingenieria. Author's Keywords: biocomplexity, spatio-temporal models, multi-agents modeling and simulation
Redman, Charles L. and Kinzig, Ann P. 2003. Resilience of past landscapes: Resilience theory, society, and the Longue Duree. Conservation Ecology 7:-. ACSC Keywords: management, environment, resilience, complexity, dynamics, patterns, settlement, adaptive capacity, mesopotamian civilization, collapse, impact, view, spatial scale, temporal scale, Classic Period Hohokam
Ruitenbeek, Jack and Cartier, Cynthia. 2001. Occasional paper no. 34. The invisible wand: Adaptive co-management as an emergent strategy in complex bio-economic systems. Center for International Forestry Research. ACSC Keywords: conservation, adaptive management, co-management, complex systems
Sivaramakrishnan, K. 1996. Participatory forestry in Bengal: Competing narratives, statemaking, and development. Cultural Surivival 20. ACSC Keywords: cultural evolution, political ecology, ecosystems, social structure, ecological economics, complex systems, Bonaire, energy, human demography, sociocultural systems, world systems