Applied Panarchy

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 Allen is a professor at the University of Nebraska in 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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Gulf Breeze, Florida, and the Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law-Utrecht University School of Law, Utrecht, The Netherlands. His research is transdisciplinary and focuses on governance of social-ecological systems.

• Table of ContentsPrefacePart I. Panarchy ConceptsChapter 1. Panarchy: Nature's RulesLance H. Gunderson, Ahjond Garmestani, Craig R. AllenPart II. Applications of Panarchy TheoryChapter 2. Panarchy, Cross Scale Resilience, and Discontinuous Structures and ProcessesShana M. Sundstrom, Craig R. Allen, David G. AngelerChapter 3. The Adaptive Cycle: More Than a MetaphorShana Sundstrom and Craig R. AllenChapter 4. Scales of Coercion: Resilience, Regimes, and PanarchyDavid G. Angeler and Craig R. AllenChapter 5. Applications of Spatial Regimes.Craig R. Allen, David G. Angeler, Ahjond Garmestani, Caleb Roberts, Shana Sundstrom, Dirac Twidwell, Dan R. UdenChapter 6. An Engineering Perspective on Managing for Resilience and PanarchyIan Pumo, Margaret Kurth, Stephanie Galaitsi, Igor LinkovChapter 7. Mapping Panarchy to Improve Visualization of Complex Environmental ChangeDirac Twidwell, Daniel R. Uden, Caleb P. Roberts, Brady W. Allred, Matthew O. Jones, David E. Naugle and Craig R. AllenPart III. Diffusion of Panarchy ConceptsChapter 8. Capacities for Navigating Large Scale Sustainability Transformations: Exploring the Revolt and Remembrance Mechanisms for Shaping Collapse and Renewal in Social Ecological SystemsPer Olsson, Carl Folke, and Michele Lee MooreChapter 9. Panarchy and Law in the AnthropoceneRobin Kundis Craig, Barbara Cosens, Ahjond Garmestani, and J.B. RuhlChapter 10. Panarchy and the EconomyJosh Farley and Megan EglerChapter 11. Assessing Panarchy in Food Systems: Cross Scale Interactions in Flint Michigan, USAJennifer Hodbod and Chelsea WentworthChapter 12. Panarchy and the Governance of Social Ecological SystemsBrian ChaffinChapter 13. Cross Scale Social Ecological Stewardship for Navigating toward More Sustainable and Just FuturesF. Stuart Chapin, III, Reinette Biggs, Nadia Sitas, Carl Folke, and Gary P. KofinasPart IV. Summary, Synthesis, and Future AdvancesChapter 14. Applications and Diffusion of Panarchy TheoryLance H. Gunderson, Craig R. Allen, and Ahjond GarmestaniAbout the EditorsContributorsIndex

"The nexus of thought and application that breaks down the disciplinary boundaries is clear to see in the examples provided in this book. I have no doubt that the broad academic movements investigating resilience in the Anthropocene will gain much from Applied Panarchy."