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1 online resource (629 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Intro -- Foreword -- Contributing Authors -- Chapter 1 -- Introduction -- Chapter 2 -- Complexity Theory as a General Framework for Sustainability Science -- Chapter 3 -- A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 4 -- Overcoming the Disciplinary Divide -- Chapter 5 -- From Conservation Biology to Conservation Science -- Chapter 6 -- Social Marketing as a Tool Implementation in Complex Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 7 -- Moving Beyond Modernism in Environmental Assessment and Management -- Chapter 8 -- Evaluation Beyond Valuation |
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Chapter 9 -- Changes in Water Availability and Demand within South Africa's Shared River Basins as Deteminants of Regional Social and Ecological Resilience -- Chapter 10 -- The Evolution of Water Governance in South Africa -- Chapter 11 -- Social Ecological Resilience in a Dry Environment -- Chapter 12 -- Applying a Resilience Framework in the Pursuit of Sustainable Land-use Development in the Little Karoo, South Africa -- Chapter 13 -- Driving Forces and Future Development Paths of Central Northern Namibia |
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Chapter 14 -- Complexity Based Modelling for Sustainability and Resilience of Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 15 -- From Promising Preaching to Piloting the Promise and Teaching what is Promising in the Planning Practice -- Chapter 16 -- Adaptive Co-Management under Resource-Poor Conditions -- Chapter 17 -- An Approach to Tracking whether Change is Sustainable in Complex Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 18 -- Learning to Learn for Social-Ecological Resilience -- References |
Access |
Open Access EbpS |
Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
Subject |
Sustainable development -- Africa, Southern.
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Sustainable development. |
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Southern Africa. |
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Environmental protection -- Africa, Southern.
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Environmental protection. |
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Social ecology -- Africa, Southern.
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Social ecology. |
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SCIENCE / Environmental Science. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Burns, Michael Exploring Sustainability Science : A Southern African Perspective Stellenbosch : African Sun Media,c2008 9781920109516 |
ISBN |
1920109560 |
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9781920109561 (electronic book) |
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