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Although humans desire 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? Scientists use panarchy theory to understand how systems--whether forests, electrical grids, agriculture, coastal surges, public health, or human economies and governance--interact together in unpredictable ways.
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.
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.
About the author
Lance Gunderson is professor and chair in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His research focuses on the human and institutional dimensions of resource ecology. He is coeditor-in-chief of the journal
Ecology and Society.
Craig R. Allen is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and serves on the board of directors for the Resilience Alliance. His research focuses on the links between land use and land cover change, biological invasions, extinctions, and resilience.
Ahjond Garmestani is a research scientist with the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development in Gulf Breeze, Florida, and the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law at the Utrecht University School of Law in Utrecht, the Netherlands. His research is transdisciplinary and focuses on governance of social-ecological systems.
Summary
After almost two decades, the seminal text Panarchy gets a highly demanded follow up, bringing panarchy theory to a more practical and timely application.
